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Motherthing

By: Ainslie Hogarth
Narrated by: Harrie Dobby
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Summary
 Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She's venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, who has a complicated understanding of motherhood given the way her own, now-estranged, mother raised her.

When Laura takes her own life, her ghost starts to haunt Abby and Ralph in very different ways. Ralph is plunged into depression, and Abby is being terrorized by a force intent on taking everything she loves away from her. With everything on the line, Abby must make the ultimate sacrifice in order to prove her adoration to Ralph and break Laura's hold on the family for good.©2022 Ainslie Hogarth (P)2022 W. F. Howes Ltd Coming of Age Domestic Thrillers Genre Fiction Ghosts Horror Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Haunted Scary Paranormal Suspense Fiction
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What a bizarre story. I listened to the entire thing in one sitting and I regret nothing.

Weird and wonderful

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I am growing concerned that my algorithm keeps giving me books like this, like maybe I have to talk to a therapist about this underlying preference I have for these kinds of books, it generally speaking I was entertained. It was a little confusing but sometimes audiobooks are like that when twists come in and it’s harder to flip back through a book. Anyway, 3.9

It was…different

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Not what I was expecting at all, great story of mental illness and inter generational trauma!

Wow

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Didn’t rate it. Seemed a bit hyped up in my own opinion. Very slow to start and a bit irritating. But oh well.

Disappointing tbh

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