A review by piedwarbler
Every Day Is Mother’s Day by Hilary Mantel

5.0

What a dark, surreal, ghastly, funny, acerbic, morbid story of a mother and daughter living in what the mother feels is a haunted house. All is not what it seems, though. Muriel, the daughter, is pregnant, and the social worker whose job it is to keep an eye on her well-being is too busy looking after her own emotional life to visit regularly. Meanwhile Evelyn, Muriel’s mother, is struggling to keep the ghosts that haunt her at bay. A perfect read for fans of Shirley Jackson and Ottessa Moshfegh. I loved it.