Motherhood -- Fiction

Desperate to get back to her business, Clare hires Jenna to be nanny to her two young children. Before long, a deadly rivalry emerges for control of the nursery. As events spiral out of control, both women must make difficult choices about love, loyalty and motherhood.

Maggie was happily married to John, at least she thought she was, until that fateful day in Brighton. She desperately wanted children, but John refused to talk about it. So Maggie continued with her part-time job and tried not to think about that gaping hole in her life. Then she met someone who ...

Rachel Massey is about to become a mother. Mere hours from now, her first baby will be here and she can't wait to meet it. Terrified and excited, there is nothing she wants more, yet she senses things will never be the same again.

Aged 13, Jane makes a vow to herself and her feuding parents - she will never marry or have children. Years later, now a professor in Boston and living with Theo, Jane falls unexpectedly pregnant. She begins to warm to the idea of motherhood, but a devastating turn of events takes the decision ou...

The discovery of a baby's skeleton on a remote Scottish island unearths long-buried secrets in this darkly comic, atmospheric novel from the author of the acclaimed 'Cold Earth'.

Mary Gilmour feels as though her life is going down a plug hole clogged with cornflakes and Play-Doh. Her job is part-time but housework is full time, and she has no time at all for her two young sons. Mary is convinced that there is only one thing standing between her and organised contentment: ...

Frumpy, exhausted and bored to tears of discussing sleep routines with competitive new mothers, when the carb-phobic Alice offers to make-over her life, Amy spots an escape route - but it follows a long and complicated path.

When Susie's maiden aunt gives her a housekeeping journal, she expects Susie to use it for jotting down nutritious recipes and planning household budgets. But Susie has more important things on her mind.

For Lucy Sweeney, motherhood isn't all astanga classes and Cath Kidston prints. It's much more little dippers swimming club and baby-sick decor, and there's not a herbal tea in sight. Lucy is living in a state of permanent emergency, and the white lies to cover up the trail of slummy mummy destru...

One morning in the small town of Lakeview, Ella Harris finds a cardboard box on the doorstop of her cafe. At first she thinks it's her usual muffin delivery but is shocked to find that the box actually contains a newborn baby. But what kind of mother would abandon a defenceless baby like that, an...