Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth

£8.99

Bookseller Review by Elle: 

A domestic literary horror following Abby after the suicide of her mother-in-law. 

A gruesome and chilling ghost story of sorts that is ultimately themed around motherhood as well as the trauma that we inherit from our mothers. 

But wow – this really amps up! Truly disturbing and shocking (in the best possible way!) 

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Description

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.