A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING READER FAVOURITE
‘Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real’ SARAH WATERS
‘Rambunctiously funny’ THE TIMES, Book of the Year
‘I can’t think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter’ ERIN KELLY
WINNER OF THE 2025 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD
A TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH
A GUARDIAN SCI-FI BOOK OF THE MONTH
A JIMMY FALLON SPRING FAVOURITE
A HARPER’S BAZAAR ‘BEST BOOK OF 2024’
AUDIBLE BEST OF THE MONTH
AMAZON ‘BEST OF MARCH’ PICK
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A ‘MOST ANTICIPATED NOVEL’ FOR GOODREADS AND READER’S DIGEST
‘Sparkles with wit and insight… A must-read’ DOLLY ALDERTON
‘Extraordinary’ DAILY MAIL
‘An irresistible comedy of manners’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘Deliciously chaotic… feverishly funny – Harris has gleeful fun dissecting this timely tale’ THE TIMES, Book of the Month
‘Sparkles with wit and insight… A must-read’ DOLLY ALDERTON
‘Extraordinary’ DAILY MAIL
‘An irresistible comedy of manners’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘Deliciously chaotic… feverishly funny – Harris has gleeful fun dissecting this timely tale’ THE TIMES, Book of the Month
‘Sparkles with wit and insight… A must-read’ DOLLY ALDERTON
‘Extraordinary’ DAILY MAIL
‘An irresistible comedy of manners’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘Deliciously chaotic… feverishly funny – Harris has gleeful fun dissecting this timely tale’ THE TIMES, Book of the Month
‘Spellbinding’ ELIF SHAFAK
‘Ingenious’ THE TIMES, Book of the Year
‘Sparkling’OBSERVER
‘A triumph’ PHILIP PULLMAN
‘As finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead’ INDEPENDENT
‘Meticulously researched and evoking the beauty of the Venice lagoon’ PHILIPPA GREGORY
‘A spectacular feat, crafted by a maestra at the top of her game’ SPECTATOR
‘Ingenious’ THE TIMES, Book of the Year
‘Sparkling’OBSERVER
‘A triumph… beyond admiration’ PHILIP PULLMAN
‘Spellbinding…. Chevalier at her fabulous best’ ELIF SHAFAK
‘As finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead… one of the reigning queens of historical fiction’ INDEPENDENT
‘A spectacular feat, crafted by a maestra at the top of her game’ SPECTATOR
‘The best kind of book: the one you didn’t know you were craving until it appeared . . . self-interrogative, intricately perceptive. I absolutely inhaled it’ JIA TOLENTINO
‘A very richly interesting exploration of a complex subject. Begoña Gómez Urzaiz tells the stories with such intelligence and wit and generosity’ TESSA HADLEY
‘The best kind of book: the one you didn’t know you were craving until it appeared … self-interrogative, intricately perceptive. I absolutely inhaled it’ JIA TOLENTINO
‘A very richly interesting exploration of a complex subject. Begoña Gómez Urzaiz tells the stories with such intelligence and wit and generosity’ TESSA HADLEY
‘The best kind of book: the one you didn’t know you were craving until it appeared … self-interrogative, intricately perceptive. I absolutely inhaled it’ JIA TOLENTINO
‘A very richly interesting exploration of a complex subject. Begoña Gómez Urzaiz tells the stories with such intelligence and wit and generosity’ TESSA HADLEY
A stylish, searing drama about the complicated love between mothers and daughters, the indelible impact of estrangement – and one woman fiercely coming into her own.
A stylish, searing drama about the complicated love between mothers and daughters, the indelible impact of estrangement – and one woman fiercely coming into her own.
MAMELE is a bold and beautiful literary novel about the shape of one woman’s life after a brutal estrangement from her mother.
Gemma Reeves writes with extraordinary deftness and care of the difficult love between mothers and daughters, loneliness and aching desire, cultural inheritance and separation.
