The Lost Mother

In her sixth novel, Mary McGarry Morris has achieved new heights with her riveting chronicle of the Talcotts, a family in rural Vermont during the Great Depression. Abandoned by his beautiful wife, Irene, Henry spends the summer in a tent on the edge of Black Pond with their two young children, Thomas and Margaret. Henry, an itinerant butcher, often must leave them alone as he travels the country in search of work. And while Henry loves his children deeply, he is devastated by their mother's desertion. When a prosperous neighbor begins to woo the children as companions for her strange, housebound son, Henry must weigh an unusual proposition, the consequences of which may cost him everything. Powerfully imagined and intensely felt, The Lost Mother is a haunting masterwork and Mary McGarry Morris's strongest novel to date. Mary Mcgarry Morris is the author of Vanished, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award; Songs in Ordinary Time, an Oprah Book Club Selection; the critically acclaimed Fiona Range, and A Dangerous Woman. She lives in Andover, Massachusetts. Reader Judith Ivey is an award-winning actress with a career spanning the stage, screen, television, and audiobooks. She is married with two children.