You Be Mother

What do you do, when you find the perfect family, and it's not yours? A charming, funny and irresistible novel about families, friendship and tiny little white lies.

The only thing Abi ever wanted was…

If you like book You Be Mother here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health and the intricacies of sibling relationships.

For Alice …
Buy this book on Amazon
So Thrilled For You

A terrible heatwave. A very tense baby shower. It will all end in tears...

Nicki, Lauren, Charlotte and Steffi have been friends since university. Now in their thirties, life is pulling them in differe…
Buy this book on Amazon
Green Dot

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing

At twenty-four, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the future is nothing but an exhaus…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Rachel Incident

A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three

Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s lov…
Buy this book on Amazon
At the Table

To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily married for more than thirty years. So when Linda and Gerry announce that they've decided to separate,…
Buy this book on Amazon
Good Material

Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped.

Now he is. . .

Without a home

Waiting for his stand-up career to take off

Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown …
Buy this book on Amazon
When We Were Friends

From the day they first meet as teenagers, Fern and Jessica are best friends. Despite their differences, they are there for each other throughout everything, navigating the difficulties of growing up …
Buy this book on Amazon
Evenings and Weekends

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters during a heatwave in London as simmering tensions and secrets come t…
Buy this book on Amazon
Blue Sisters

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death in this unforgettable story of grief, identity, and the complexities of family.

The three Blue sister…
Buy this book on Amazon
Girls

GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their famous late mother, brilliant yet deeply troubled artist Ingrid Olsen.

As they embark on an all-or-noth…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Work

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying off. Pat is a scholarship boy desperate to establish himself in Sydney's antiquities scene. When they …
Buy this book on Amazon
Promising Young Women

For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG or SEARCH PARTY - Caroline O'Donoghue's debut is a gothic, darkly witty novel about sex, power, work…
Buy this book on Amazon
Nesting

An extraordinary and urgent debut by a prize-winning Irish writer, Nesting introduces an unforgettable new voice in fiction.

On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decis…
Buy this book on Amazon
You Are Here

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . .

Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Be…
Buy this book on Amazon
Everyone and Everything

A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister.

When Yael Silver’s world comes crashing down, she looks to the past for answers and finds solace in sur…
Buy this book on Amazon
Fire

On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the trappings of wealth and privilege, a responsible job as a surgeon specialising in skin grafts, a beau…
Buy this book on Amazon
All My Mothers

From the author of the Costa shortlisted debut, The Other Half of Augusta Hope, comes the story of one girl’s journey to find her birth mother, and her realisation that mothers – and family – can be d…
Buy this book on Amazon
Really Good, Actually

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning in the wake of an unexpected breakup, from comedian, essayist, and award-winning screenwriter Monica …
Buy this book on Amazon
Intermezzo

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have li…
Buy this book on Amazon
Soldier Sailor

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us and all is well, for now...

In her first novel for over a decade, Claire Kilroy takes us deep into th…
Buy this book on Amazon