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    The Bad Mother
    The Bad Mother
    The Bad Mother
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Bad Mother

    Written by Amanda Brooke

    Narrated by Georgia Maguire

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    About this audiobook

    That’s what he wants you to think…

    A good mother doesn’t forget things.

    A good mother isn’t a danger to herself.

    A good mother isn’t a danger to her baby.

    You want to be the good mother you dreamed you could be.

    But you’re not. You’re the bad mother you were destined to become.

    At least, that what he wants you to believe…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 22, 2018
    ISBN9780008219178
    The Bad Mother
    Author

    Amanda Brooke

    Amanda Brooke is an internationally bestselling author. Her debut novel, Yesterday’s Sun, was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and since then she has written eleven further books which regularly make the bestseller charts. Amanda lives in Merseyside with a cat called Spider, a dog called Mouse, and a laptop within easy reach.

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    • 4/5
      Good book, not a huge twist but it was very interesting and up my ally / psychological thriller
    • 4/5
      Was good but not great, just wanted to scream at the main character to cop on all the way through it tbh. I thought the narrator did a great job though
    • 4/5
      Great book! It was a little slow to start but the characters were so well developed I was engulfed. Looking forward to her other works.
    • 3/5
      Predictable and slow, and I was constantly yelling at the main character to make different choices than she was making. An okay read, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it unless you’re friends with the author and you’ll feel bad that you didn’t read it when you see her.
    • 2/5
      I usually love Amanda Brookes books, so I was chuffed to read this one, however, It took me about three weeks to finish it. My main issues are, this book was very confusing instead of suspenseful and the characters were very unlikeable in my opinion. I'm always one to hope that books get better, but for me, this one did not.
    • 2/5
      If you feel like spending 80% of book hating the main character worse than you hate the villian. The only reason i got to the end was by skipping forward. And i never fast forward books. Ever. But, again, you don’t miss anything significant to the story line if you cut out chapter 4 through 36.
    • 5/5
      Adam and Lucy are happily married. Or are they? What changed? With Lucy’s pregnancy, she’s forgetful; forgetting to turn off the stove or lock the door or forgetting whole or partial conversations they had or things she did. And there are gaps in her life that she doesn’t know what happened until Adam tells her the terrible things she’s been doing. Including the time Lucy stabbed him. But why doesn’t she remember? She only remembers waking up the floor after a terrible argument with no memory of what she has done. Being married to Adam has become a nightmare. For both of them. Lucy has no confidence in anything anymore. She has become estranged from family and friends. If she is this confused and dangerous now, what kind of mother will she be? Adam is gradually becoming a tyrant; exasperated with having to babysit a wife who can’t seem to handle even the simplest tasks and is a danger to herself and everyone else.Hoping it is just “baby brain”,a symptom of pregnancy and hormones, she hopes once the baby is born, life will go back to normal and she and Adam can go back to being happy and put this nightmare behind them. But the nightmare isn’t over. All too realistic is this story of Lucy whose increasing panic about what is happening in her head. It chips away who she is and she becomes chips away who she is and she becomes a shell of her former self. From a confident strong woman, she has become “pathetic”and a burden; someone she doesn’t even know and it increases as Adam becomes more mean and hateful as he is thrust into a life he didn’t sign up for. Our emotions are tested; I cringed with every cruel word Adam said, and felt such sympathy for Lucy as she quickly loses sense of reality and is terrified that the result will be Adam leaving her. This is a gripping well told story although I felt it went on a little long as we are well aware of what’s happening long before Lucy has a clue. I still thoroughly enjoyed it and wanted to read it cover to cover and not put it down. This is the first book I have read by this author and definitely won’t be the last. I’d give it a 4 1/2.