Two women meet in a Dublin café on a winter afternoon – an encounter that will change both their lives forever.

A Good Enough Mother
By Catherine Dunne 

Publication Date: 18th June 2024
Publisher: Betimes Books 
Page Length: 318 Pages
Genre: Family Saga

Two women meet in a Dublin café on a winter afternoon – an encounter that will change both their lives forever.

Tess has no idea who this woman Maeve is, or why she has approached her like this, out of the blue. She says that she has important information about Tess’s younger son, Luke, and she insists that Tess needs to listen.

As Maeve’s story unfolds, Tess has the strangest feeling that she knows her from somewhere – but she can’t locate her in any of her memories. As the evening darkens and the café around them seems to grow still, Tess listens in growing distress. The safety of the life and family she has created begins to come apart at the seams.

The fractured lives of mothers and children are woven together in this multi-layered narrative, reminiscent of the creation of a patchwork quilt.

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Catherine Dunne

Catherine Dunne is the author of twelve novels, several essays and one work of non-fiction. "An Unconsidered People" documents the lived experience of Irish immigrants in Britain in the dismal years of the 1950s. Catherine’s novels have been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the International Strega Prize.

"The Things We Know Now" won the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction in 2013 and "The Years That Followed", published in 2016, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her latest novel, "A Good Enough Mother", won the European Rapallo BPER Banca Prize for fiction in November 2023. Her work has been translated into several languages, she was the recipient of the 2018 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and is a member of Aosdána.

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