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    A Good Enough Mother: A Novel
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    A Good Enough Mother: A Novel

    Written by Bev Thomas

    Narrated by Rebecca Lacey

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    About this audiobook

    A riveting novel that lets us inside the secret world of therapist and patient, where boundaries get crossed, and events spiral out of control....

    Ruth Hartland is a psychotherapist with years of experience. But professional skill is no guard against private grief. The mother of grown twins, she is haunted by the fact that her beautiful, difficult, fragile son Tom, a boy who never "fit in", disappeared a year and a half earlier. She cannot give up hope of finding him, but feels she is living a kind of half life, waiting for him to return.

    Enter a new patient, Dan — unstable and traumatized — who looks exactly like her missing son. She is determined to help him, but soon her own complicated feelings about how she has failed her own boy cloud her professional judgment. And before long, the unthinkable becomes a shattering reality....

    An utterly compelling drama with a time bomb at its core, A Good Enough Mother is a brilliant, beautiful story of mothering and how to let go of the ones we love when we must.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 30, 2019
    ISBN9781984843319
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    • 2/5
      A psychiatrist with a troubled family loses perspective with her patients resulting in grave consequences.

      If I made that sound exciting then apologies, because it is not. This is neither a thriller nor a work of suspense, it’s a four hour 80’s soft-lit Hallmark Channel fictionalization docudrama.