by Hilary Mantel · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841153391
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«Every Day Is Mother's Day» is Hilary Mantel's literary fiction novel, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (240 pages, in English).
The story follows Evelyn Axon, a medium who lives with her daughter Muriel in a ruined house surrounded by rubbish, and Isabel Field, the social worker who visits them. While Isabel deals with her elderly father and Colin, a married man who asks her to run away with him, a secret grows in the Axon household that, when it comes to light, proves as comic as it is unsettling.
First instalment of the Axon Family series. The novel originally appeared in 1985; the present paperback edition was published in 2006.
For reading groups and readers of literary fiction who appreciate the satirical tone and British domestic setting.
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces.
