PHOTO: GETTY IT’S HARD TO think of a more timely tale. Two mothers, bound by years of friendship but with opposing views on vaccinations, clash in the most heartbreaking way possible. The idea for this brilliant new debut, however, was conceived well before the pandemic. But reading it with Covid hindsight, it grips you from the start.
The two mothers in question, Elizabeth and Bry, have been best friends since university, live on the same street and are godmother to each other’s children. But while Elizabeth is the organised, immaculate former solicitor who’s a little too tightly wound, Bry is her polar opposite – bohemian, artistic and disorganised. Or, as the author sums it up in the first chapter: ‘Elizabeth kept all her receipts, Bry stored fivers in her bra.’…
