{"product_id":"the-mothers-the-new-york-times-bestseller","title":"The Mothers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/collections\/fiction\/products\/the-vanishing-half-shortlisted-for-the-women-s-prize-2021\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Vanishing Half\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cem\u003eThe Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e is a dazzling debut about young love, a big secret in a small community and the moments that haunt us most. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt's the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThey are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance - and the subsequent cover-up - will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSoon, Nadia, Luke and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully manoeuvre and dogged by the constant, nagging question: what if they had chosen differently? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn entrancing, lyrical prose, \u003cem\u003eThe Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e asks whether a 'what if' can be more powerful than an experience itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brit Bennett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40327688683682,"sku":"9780349701493","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-1861.png?v=1760537359","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/the-mothers-the-new-york-times-bestseller","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}