Mother Tongue (Naima Brown, Macmillan)

Naima Brown’s cleverly titled second novel Mother Tongue is a gripping, exquisitely layered story that deals with extremes and challenges conventional morality. The protagonist, Brynn, upends the assumption that mothers must always put their children first. After waking from a coma speaking only French, she realises she wants out of…

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