Top ten books about "bad" mothers

Peggy Frew’s debut novel, House of Sticks, won the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Her new novel is Hope Farm.

One of Frew's top ten books featuring the "messy intersection of the mother’s actual self with her role in the lives of her children," as shared at the Guardian:Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

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