MotherKind - Softcover

"Phillips's writing is distinctive, audacious and powerful" (Daily Telegraph)

"A brilliant writer, utterly original and with an astonishing range" (Ian McEwan)

"Jayne Anne Phillips combines extraordinary perception with extraordinary versatility and power" (Margaret Atwood)

"No number of books read or films seen can deaden one to the intimate act of art by which this wonderful young writer has penetrated the definitive experience of her generation" (Nadine Gordimer)

"Delicate compassion and hard-edged honesty... MotherKind is further proof of an extraordinary ability to reflect the texture of real life" (Washington Post Book World)

Kate - whose care for her terminally ill mother coincides with the birth of her first child in the early months of a young marriage - must, in a single year, come to terms with radiant beginnings and profound loss.

Kate's everyday world is enveloped by the gradual vanishing of her mother. And as the woman who has been her best friend and mentor disappears, we see Kate deal with timeless, perhaps unanswerable, questions of love and death.