The other mother : a novel / Carol Goodman.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062819833 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 324, 16 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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Subject: | Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Motherhood > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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- 10 of 10 copies available at Sitka.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kimberley Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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Kimberley Public Library | F GOO (Text) | 35137001011658 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Boissevain-Morton Library | F/Goodman (Text) | 36266000298906 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Castlegar Public Library | MYS GOO (Text) | 35146002073534 | Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
Kitimat Public Library | Goo (Text) | 32665002104620 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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33126000277495 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Tumbler Ridge Public Library | AF GOODM (Text) | TRL23276 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Allard Branch | FIC GOO (Text) | 37842000756827 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Quesnel Branch | GOO (Text) | 33923005944073 | Suspense | Volume hold | Available | - |
Victoria Beach Branch | FIC GOO (Text) | 37842000706848 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Williams Lake Branch | GOO (Text) | 33923005944081 | Suspense | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2018 January #1
*Starred Review* Critically acclaimed author Goodman has written more than a dozen novels, often blending various genres with literary fiction. She does so again in the story of Daphne Marist, who is having a difficult time dealing with life after the birth of her daughter, Chloe. Diagnosed with postpartum mood disorder, she joins a support group, where she meets Laurel Hobbes, also lost in a downward spiral since delivering her daughter, coincidentally named Chloë (but with an umlaut). Their burgeoning friendship, extreme fears, and seemingly irrational resentments are related through their journal entries. Daphne eventually becomes obsessed with the idea that her husband is trying to take her baby away, prompting her to assume Laurel's identity, and runs away with Chloë to a towering stone mansion in the Catskills (the one right by the mental asylum!), where she has secured a live-in position. An atmospheric and harrowing tale, richly literary in complexity but ripe with all the crazed undertones, confusions, and forebodings inherent in the gothic genre. Recommend this riveting, du Maurierâlike novel to fans of Jennifer McMahon. Copyright 2018 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2018 January #2
Assuming her best friend's identity, Daphne Marist flees her home and husband, infant daughter in tow, for the sanctuary of a remote mansion, secretly taking a job as a live-in archivist for her favorite author.The book's first-person narrative opens right into Daphne's fractured memories, so it isn't immediately clear to the reader why she needs refugeâbut Goodman (The Widow's House, 2017, etc.) lays intriguing clues, including a soaked baby blanket and inexplicable light signals. Once ensconced in Schuyler Bennett's mansion, tucked away in the Catskills and next door to a mental asylum, Daphne sorts the puzzle pieces. She met Laurel Hobbes in a support group for new mothers battling postpartum depression. They bonded quicklyâafter all, they had a lot in common, including infant daughters named Chloe and difficult relationships with their older husbands. Soon Daphne and Laurel have similar clothes, haircuts, and gym habits. Meanwhile, Daphne's husband, Peter, que stions whether Daphne is mentally stable. Has she fully recovered from her attempt to overdose shortly after Chloe's birth? Remembering little more than his hands on her shoulders, shaking her awake in the bathtub, Daphne can only rely on Peter's version of the story. Meanwhile, Laurel's hold on reality begins disintegrating, and her husband, Stan, confides in Daphne that Laurel, too, has battled mental illness. In Schuyler's archives, Daphne discovers records for Edith Sharp, an inmate at the asylum who, 40 years ago, also suffered from postpartum depression and was treated by Schuyler's father. Edith's life seems to have inspired Schuyler's short story "The Changeling." Curious, Daphne visits the asylum, where she finds herself caught up in a nefarious plot that may cost her her very sanity. In the spirit of Du Maurier's Rebecca, Goodman has concocted a labyrinthine tale of tangled identities, and every twist of the plot exposes more ghosts from the past preying on the pre s ent. A Gothic thriller deliciously riddled with dark motives and shadowy paths. Copyright Kirkus 2018 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2017 October #2
To escape her controlling husband, Daphne Marist runs away with baby daughter Chloe and takes a job at a Catskills mansion under an assumed name. From Hammett Prize winner Goodman, whose recent The Widow's House has gone through several printings.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2018 February #1
Daphne Marist meets Laurel Hobbes at a new mother's group, where they discover both their babies are named Chloe. This tenuous connection is enough to bring the two women together in the foggy days of new motherhood. The overtones of Greek myth carry on throughout the twisty plot involving mistaken identities, madness, and motherly love. Eventually, Daphne takes Chloe and flees her controlling husband, finding a temporary job as a writer's private secretary under an assumed name. Her employer's country home backs onto a psychiatric hospital, which Daphne's father had once run. This institution looms large both in imagination and reality, especially once Daphne is accused of really being Laurel and is committed as a patient. She begins questioning her own sense of reality, even while finding allies among the staff and other inmates. Goodman's (
Copyright 2018 Library Journal.The Lake of Dead Languages ) characteristic gothic elementsâan isolated country house, academics, women in dangerâmeld especially well with the untrustworthy spouses and endangered children of domestic suspense. Secrets from the past are played out just slowly enough to tantalize the reader, but are complex enough to create a believable plot.VERDICT An engaging read that will appeal to readers of Shari Lapena or Michelle Richmond.âMelanie Kindrachuk, Stratford P.L., Ont. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2018 January #2
Daphne Marist, the unreliable narrator of this chilling tale from Goodman (
Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly.The Widow's House ), takes her baby and flees her domineering husband for a job as live-in archivist for elusive author Schuyler Bennett, whose Catskills mansion borders the grounds of a psychiatric institution. Daphne has a secret, though. The name and background she's provided to Schuyler belong to her friend Laurel Hobbes, whom she met at a Westchester support group for new mothers. Excerpts from both women's journals describe an obsessive friendship in which their identities blurred together until Daphne's climactic decision to leave. Either Daphne's postpartum depression has led to a complete break with reality, or else she's the target of a sinister plotâand only an elderly woman, confined to the institution for 45 years after abandoning her own baby, can help her discover the truth. Despite sometimes troubling depictions of mental illness and an implausible coincidence at the center of the plot, this engrossing novel will keep readers eagerly turning the pages.Agent: Robin Rue, Writers House. (Mar.)