Recent novels about / from the perspective of mothers

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As a passion project, I've been collecting contemporary novels - and compiling a list of novels - about mothers, and/or written from the perspective of mothers.

While aware this will have been covered on this forum before, I'm specifically interested in novels published in the past 2-3 years by British & Irish authors.

I'll bet I've missed some pearls. Can you help?

Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy

The Herd by Emily Edwards

Night Waking by Sarah Moss.

This one I'm familiar with! Thanks

Family Matter by Claire Lynch is brilliant.

Sandwich by Catherine Newman - my whole family read it and couldn't believe how accurate the conversational narrative was!

Oh and Nesting by Rosin O'Donnell is on my wishlist.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

I loved A Good Enough Mother by Bev Thomas

All my Mothers by Joanna Glen

I'm just reading and thoroughly enjoying 'A Ghost in the Throat' by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, a bilingual author: https://doireannnighriofa.com/books/a-ghost-in-the-throat

Tom Lake - Anne Patchett
Same As It Ever Was - Claire Lombardo

Both written with the mother as main protagonist/narrator and tackle the challenges and joys of motherhood but both “flash back” a lot to life before children too.

So thrilled for you by Holly Bourne

The Book Eaters: fantasy about a mother with a son with special needs set in an alternate reality.

The Daughter, by TM Logan

I enjoyed this but was also frustrated at times at how rude her kids were to her and she just took it.

Also Homecoming by Kate Morton

We All Live Here. Jojo Moyes.

The Names. Florence Knapp.

The Push -Ashley Audrain, Sometimes I lie - Alice Feeney, Afterwards - Rosamund Lupton

You need a lot of Anne Enright. Her last two novels, Actress and The Wren, the Wren, feature mother/daughter duos (and if you don’t know it, her non-fiction book about motherhood, Making Babies, is wonderful.)

Claire Kilroy’s Soldier Sailor, as a pp said, and Breakdown by Cathy Sweeney, about a middle-aged woman who walks out on her family.

You Be Mother by Meg Mason

The school for good mothers (dystopian fiction about what it means to be a ‘good’ mother - and how we just can’t win!)

Sorry, can't work out how to add a link but there was an article last Friday in the Guardian about fictional mothers which mentions a few books.

Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder (is 2021 tho)