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We have your daughter.

Frida Liu is a struggling mother. She remembers taking Harriet from her cot and changing her nappy. She remembers giving her a morning bottle. They'd been up since four a.m.

Frida just had to finish the article in front of her. But she'd left a file on her desk at work. What would happen if she retrieved it and came back in an hour? She was so sure it would be okay.

Now, the state has decided that Frida is not fit to care for her daughter. That she must be re-trained. Soon, mothers everywhere will be re-educated. Will their mistakes cost them everything?

The School for Good Mothers is an explosive and thrilling novel about love and the pressures of perfectionism, parenthood and privilege.

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Such a gripping story! Highly recommend. Definitely makes you think about how unfair life can be.

Loved it!

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Hits really close to home, this could happen - we inch closer to this kind of control. Completely identified with this character - there but for the grace of God, this could be any mum that has a bad day or makes a single mistake. A must read, but be ready to re-think and question your parenting skills and your judgement of others!

Frighteningly brilliant

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Emotionally charged but wonderfully executed. Not sure what I was expecting, but it took me on a journey through the yearning mother’s experience.

Pulls on all the right strings

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Very interesting scenario describing the nanny state. Had me shocked & appalled but equally enthralled as to what would happen next. I wasn’t keen on the ending but it did fit the rest of the book. Definitely worth listening too but left me feeling a little uncomfortable.

Scarily believable!

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It wasn’t my usual type of book… it crept a little too far into the unbelievable for me, where I enjoy books about real - or at least more realistic/ relatable - situations.

It was well written. I didn’t enjoy the narrators voice.

Not what I expected

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