Because of You by Dawn French

Because of You
Dawn French

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Published: 2020

Longlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock… midnight.

The old millennium turns into the new.

In the same hospital, two very different women give birth to two very similar daughters.

Hope leaves with a beautiful baby girl. Anna leaves with empty arms.

Seventeen years later, the gods who keep watch over broken-hearted mothers wreak mighty revenge, and the truth starts rolling, terrible and deep, toward them all. The power of mother-love will be tested to its limits. Perhaps beyond…

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