(28)All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman

 

Florence Grimes, age thirty-one, always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl-band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son Dylan. But then Alfie Risby, her son’s bully and the heir to a vast frozen-food empire, mysteriously vanishes during a class trip, and Dylan becomes the prime suspect.

Florence, for once, is faced with a task she can’t quit: She’s got to find Alfie and clear her son’s name or risk losing Dylan forever—never mind that she has no useful skills (let alone investigative ones) and that all the other school moms hate her. Oh, and she has a reason to suspect Dylan might not be as innocent as she’d like to believe.

What is it with authors writing totally unlikable characters? Just when I think Florence is going to redeem herself, she lets me and Dylan down again. I did enjoy the story, but it was just frustrating for me to see someone make so many selfish mistakes. Maybe it's an age thing, by which I mean I'm old enough to be Florence's mother. 

Details: 

• All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman
• Pages: 384
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication Date: 3/11/2025
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