For the why, we need to travel back a few years… What would make a well-respected widow in her sixties travel to a distant town to buy a gun? That’s what Miriam Duffy is doing. The Mother is the first novel for adults by award winning Australian columnist and author, novelist, broadcaster, and documentary writer, Jane Caro. As I looked at the photo I began to imagine how I would feel if my daughter and grandchildren were living in abject fear of the husband and father who claimed to love them. I love them intensely and feel extremely protective towards them.
'I am the grandmother of two small children aged two and four. It was this image that gave me the idea for a book about a mother's revenge. I was haunted by the image of a bereft older woman, head in her hands, after I saw her in a photo with her family who had become the victims of a horrendous domestic homicide. Jane Caro: 'The idea for this novel came to me fully formed. But she will do anything for the people she loves most in the world.
As the situation escalates and the law proves incapable of protecting them, Miriam is faced with an unthinkable decision. She was thrilled when her younger daughter, Ally, married her true love, but as time goes by Miriam watches in disbelief and growing fear as Ally's perfect husband starts controlling her and their children, and cutting them off from the rest of the world. Miriam Duffy is a respectable North Shore widow, real estate agent and devoted mother and grandmother. In response to escalating and almost daily media reports of incidents of horrifying family violence, feminist icon and fearless commentator Jane Caro has written a stunning novel that asks what any of us might do when faced with a threat to the people we hold most dear. Just like the garden, the fuse box, the bills, bin night and blown light bulbs, this was just something else she'd now have to take care of herself. From the Walkley Award winning journalist, social commentator and author comes a gripping domestic thriller with a moral dilemma at its core.
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