Mother

Chosen by Bernardine Evaristo as one of her Top 20 Books by Black British Womxn Writers, Yvvette Edwards` second novel, The Mother, tells Marcia`s story. Marcia Williams thought she knew her son. She thought he was safe. She was wrong . . . Today, Marcia is heading to the Old Bailey. She`s going there to do something no mother should ever have to do: to attend the trial of the boy accused of her son`s murder. She`s not meant to be that woman; Ryan, her son, wasn`t that kind of boy. But Tyson Manley is that kind of a boy and, as his trial unfolds, it becomes clear that it`s his girlfriend Sweetie who has the answers Marcia so badly needs and who can - perhaps - offer Marcia some kind of hope for the future. But Sweetie is as scared of Tyson as Ryan should have been and, as Marcia`s learned the hard way, nothing`s certain. Not any more.