The Good Mother: The 'powerful, dramatic, readable' New York Times bestseller

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A reissue of the powerful and troubling debut sensation - which spent over six months at top of the New York Times bestseller list on its original publication thirty years ago Recently divorced, Anna Dunlap has two passionate attachments: her daughter, four-year-old Molly, and her lover, Leo, the man who makes her feel beautiful - and sexual - for the first time. Swept away by happiness and passion, Anna feels she has everything she's ever wanted. Then come the shocking charges that would threaten her new love, her new family - that force her to prove she is a good mother.

Sue Miller was born in Chicago in 1943. She is the bestselling author of ten previous novels including The Good Mother, The Distinguished Guest, the Oprah Book Club selection While I Was Gone, Lost in the Forest, the Richard & Judy choice The Senator's Wife, The Lake Shore Limited, The Arsonist and the acclaimed memoir The Story of My Father. Her books have been published in 22 countries and she has been awarded a Guggenheim and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. Sue Miller lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. suemillerofficial.com

Thanks to Sue Miller's gift for precise psychological detail, her sure sense of narrative and her simple compassion for ordinary lives, this powerful novel proves as subtle as it is dramatic, as durable - in its emotional afterlife - as it is instantly readable -- MICHIKO KAKUTANI * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * "This powerful novel proves as subtle as it is dramatic, as durable-in its emotional afterlife-as it is instantly readable." * New York Times * A remarkable accomplishment * Chicago Tribune * Praise for Monogamy: One of the most emotionally truthful novels I have ever read * Daisy Buchanan * Almost every line glows with even-handed wisdom - a superb novel, beautifully put together * Daily Mail * An invaluably moving book * Juliet Nicholson * One to read first for the story and then to re-read at leisure and marvel at how real these people feel * Erin Kelly * Penetrating, intelligent, humane, funny too ... Smart and powerfully alive * Tessa Hadley * An underrated master of US fiction ... Miller asks big questions about marriage and whether it's worth the sacrifices involved. And these fascinating insights are wrapped up in a page-turning plot, too * Sunday Express * A poignant page-turner, delving deep into our most intimate relationships * Evening Standard * Miller is concerned with deeper mysteries of human motivation . A writer with an uncanny compass for the contrary * Sunday Telegraph * Miller's thoughtful, searching prose fills in all the background details, and her vivid characters are utterly believable. Brilliant * The Times * An eloquent chronicler of the complexities of ordinary relationships, whose informal language belies the depths of her insights . Miller nails the contradictory emotions and desires that are responsible for people so often bypassing the seemingly easy road to happiness * Independent * Miller writes with grace and poise, crafting an examination of love and loss that is both understated and emotionally charged * Guardian * Miller writes with tremendous subtlety and perception * Daily Mail *