Three Mothers
From the bestselling author of The Forgetting: a tense, character-driven suspense with a final twist that will make you gasp
A heartbroken mother
When seventeen-year-old Isla Richardson is killed in a hit-and-run incident, a community’s lives are thrown into disarray. For Isla’s mum, Abby, it is her second devastating bereavement, having lost her husband five years ago. As Abby begins to uncover secrets about Isla’s life, she’s forced to rethink everything she thought she knew about her family.
A supportive best friend
For Abby’s best friend, Nicole, the tragic death sets in motion a chain of events that will have irreparable consequences for her husband and her two teenage sons.
A determined mum
For Jenna, Isla’s death threatens to expose secrets about her son’s past that she has done everything in her power to hide, to secure him a better future.
A tragedy unites them—but it could also tear their families apart
Tackling friendship, family, social prejudice and the pressures facing young women, Three Mothers asks: how well do we really know our children? And how far would any of us go to protect the people we love?
Ideal for fans of Louise Candlish, Lisa Jewell and Liane Moriarty, Three Mothers is a tense, page-turning domestic suspense story with a final twist that will make you gasp.
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Hannah Beckerman
Some writers chase drama in the loud moments of life. Hannah Beckerman has built her literary world in the silences—the unspoken hurts, the quiet hopes, the truths families guard too closely. A former television producer turned full-time author and critic, Beckerman has an instinct for peeling back the layers of ordinary lives to reveal the extraordinary emotions underneath.
Born and raised in London, Beckerman’s love of stories began young, nurtured by weekend visits to the local library and a deep academic dive into English literature at King’s College London. After earning a master’s degree at Queen Mary University, she spent over a decade crafting narratives behind the scenes of BBC and Channel 4 documentaries, before turning her attention to the kinds of stories that unfold off-camera—personal, intimate, and often bittersweet.
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