The Mother, B.L. Blanchard
The Mother, B.L. Blanchard
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The Mother

Author: B.L. Blanchard

Narrator: Fleur de Wit

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/23/2023

Synopsis

Dragon Award for Best Speculative Fiction Nominee.In a present-day Britain where the British Empire never existed, wives and mothers strive for deliverance in a novel about oppression, autonomy, and family secrets by the author of The Peacekeeper.What if Europe had never colonized the world? It is a world that never had overseas empires, the transatlantic slave trade, or the Protestant Reformation. There is, however, in an obscure island nation called England, a woman running for her life.Marie, Duchess of Suffolk, has no choice. In this society, women are a reproductive commodity. Marriage is the only available occupation. And barren wives like Marie are expendable trade. After absconding with the family jewels, Marie fakes her own death and seeks a life outside the confines of her family and her marriage. She’s looking for freedom but finds even more: an underground network of women like her, her estranged sister, and a greater mission to discover the truth behind their mother’s inexplicable death.Hunted and chased across borders by those she fled, Marie has stolen more than the family jewels. She is escaping with secrets. And all that matters now, no matter the risk, is stealing freedom.

About B.L. Blanchard

B. L. Blanchard is the author of The Peacekeeper. She is a graduate of the UC Davis creative writing honors program and was a writing fellow at Boston University School of Law. She is a lawyer and enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. She is originally from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan but has lived in California for so long that she can no longer handle cold weather. For more information, visit www.blblanchard.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Suz on August 10, 2022

The dread was relentless and real at every stage of this book. Having not read Jane Caro before, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had only seen her on a panel many years back, streamed at my library, about women in business and entrepreneurialship. I was impressed by this fictional work, addressing a......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on June 07, 2022

Confronting, disturbing, sad and powerful are the first words that come to mind after reading this book. Aussie author Jane Caro has done a suburb job in writing The Mother which is her debut novel and my goodness what a page-turner it was. I find reading books about domestic violence is always diff......more

Goodreads review by Kylie on May 22, 2022

The Mother is a very well written and entertaining debut novel by by Jane Caro. Miriam is a mother of two adult daughters, Fiona and Alley. Fiona is happily married with a daughter Molly, and Ally has just met the "man of her dreams", after multiple dead end boyfriends. Miriam and her husband Pete bo......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on February 19, 2022

The Mother is the debut adult fiction novel from Jane Caro, a women with many talents. This book evoked so many emotions in my whilst reading it. It mad me angry, it made me sad and it really made me think. It is confronting look at domestic violence and the ways that the law and can and cannot prot......more

Goodreads review by Tracey on March 12, 2022

I'm definitely in the minority here by saying that I didn't enjoy this one, which has left me so disappointed because it is such an important story that needs to be told. My dislike comes down completely to Miriam. I found her inner monologue so annoying, and she came across to me as very immature.......more

Quotes

“[A] dystopian thrill ride.” —Publishers Weekly“I have never read a book as transformative, sharp, fun, genuinely page-turning and transgressively Indigenous as B.L. Blanchard's The Mother. This is Indigenous Futurism at its absolute best.” —Erika T Wurth, author of Whitehorse

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