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A deeply moving novel about hopeful beginnings and profound endings - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch 'A brilliant writer, utterly original and with an astonishing range' IAN McEWAN 'Phillips combines extraordinary perception with extraordinary versatility and power' MARGARET ATWOOD 'Shimmering prose, fierce realism...
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A reissue of MotherKind, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch
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A deeply moving novel about hopeful beginnings and profound endings - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch
'A brilliant writer, utterly original and with an astonishing range' IAN McEWAN
'Phillips combines extraordinary perception with extraordinary versatility and power' MARGARET ATWOOD
'Shimmering prose, fierce realism and probing meditativeness' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'The beauty and originality of MotherKind are undeniable' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
One summer's day, 30-year-old Kate flies to her Appalachian hometown to tell her mother she is pregnant. But when she arrives, her mother reveals that she doesn't have long to live.
Kate is suddenly thrust into roles of enormous responsibility, caring for both her child and her terminally ill mother. In the same year that she watches her newborn grow, Kate witnesses the gradual disappearance of a woman who has been her best friend and mentor her entire life, and is forced to reckon with devastating loss alongside a joyful new beginning.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780349725574
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fleet
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 240g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Jayne Anne Philips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of six novels, including Night Watch, Quiet Dell, Lark And Termite, MotherKind, Shelter, and Machine Dreams, and two story collections, Fast Lanes, and Black Tickets, a debut that influenced a generation of writers. Twice nominated for the National Book Award, and twice a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. Awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, Phillips is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Her work has been translated into twelve languages and has appeared in Granta, Harper's, The New York Times and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. See information and text source photographs at her website, www.jayneannephillips.com.
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