A review by bookpossum
Every Day Is Mother's Day by Hilary Mantel

4.0

Wow! Mantel's first published novel takes the reader to a very dark place indeed. I didn't really want to be there, but I couldn't look away, because it was and is all so possible. Despite the grim central story and the depressingly miserable secondary characters, there are some funny moments, not least a dinner party attended by Colin, one of the supporting cast, and his wife. A gathering of more poisonous and pretentious people would be hard to imagine.

Brilliant stuff, but anyone reading it needs to be in a cheerful frame of mind!