Mamele
About this ebook
‘Fresh and daring'
KATE SAWYER
‘One of the best books I’ve read in a while ... A real triumph’
ELIZABETH MACNEAL
'A complex story about motherhood, inheritance and the things we're willing to forsake in the name of desire'
AMY TWIGG
'A haunting novel ... Overwhelming and seductive'
LUCIE ELVEN
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‘When my mother washed my hair she crooned, mamele, mamele, into my ear. Little mother, meaning little daughter, meaning you’re a good girl, Edie.’
Edie lives with her partner Joanna in a crumbling country house in Broadstairs. They have spent over a decade together since the death of Harry, the third member of their polyamorous relationship. It’s a quiet, comfortable existence – but conversations about the mother who abandoned her have recently awoken in Edie feelings she long thought buried.
Mamele is a stylish, searing drama about the complicated love between mothers and daughters, the indelible impact of estrangement and one woman fiercely coming into her own.
About the author
Gemma Reeves is a writer and teacher who lives and works in London. She graduated with distinction from the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and holds an MA in Twentieth Century Literature from Goldsmiths. She has co-written award-winning non-fiction books and her fiction has been shortlisted for the 2017 V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, Highly Commended in the 2019 Bridport Prize, and longlisted for the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize and BBC National Short Story Award in 2020. VICTORIA PARK, Gemma's debut novel, was published by Allen & Unwin (Atlantic Books) in January 2021.
