A review by cassiecat
The Wolf's Mother Speaks by Ben Dolnick

dark funny medium-paced

4.25

🎧4.25⭐️

I had the audiobook narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, who has the most beautiful dulcet tones to listen to. I just loved listening. 

It’s short, only 4hrs 42 minutes . It’s Joyce’s story about her son Michael.  She gives her musing to her neighbour to read, she is desperate for him to help her write it. Those musings are her telling her neighbour and the reader the story. The way it’s told I totally bought into it. 

It really demonstrates a mothers love, and the lengths she will go to to protect her offspring. It has dry witty mom humour, Joyce often goes off on a random tangent, giving an old lady feel.  It’s got a YA vibe, except it’s got some strong bad language, it’s also quite dark. 

There’s not a lot of character depth, but that’s not surprising with the length of the story. 

The theme wouldn’t be my usual genre, but I have to say I really enjoyed it, the narrator is fabulous, but it seemed a strange choice as the storyteller is female.