PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Charlene Carr spent much of her childhood creating elaborate, multi-faceted storylines for her dolls and reading under the blankets with a flashlight when she was supposed to be asleep. A bit of a nomad, she's lived in four countries and seven Canadian provinces. After working an array of mostly writing related jobs, she decided the time had come to focus exclusively on her true love novel writing. She lives in Nova Scotia with her husband and daughter. Hold My Girl is her tenth novel, and she recently received a Canada Council for the Arts grant to revise her next novel.
'A compelling narrative that portrays both sides of a headline-making controversy about biology, motherhood and race. Thoughtful, tense and affecting, with compassion at its centre' -- Ashley Audrain, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Push 'Charlene Carr unflichingly puts the reader into the broken hearts and spiraling minds of two mothers who are thrust into an unimaginable situation ... An intensely propulsive page turner. I was spellbound' -- Heather Marshall, #1 bestselling author of Looking For Jane 'Each fresh twist had me shifting my sympathies until the very end. Hold My Girl is a beautiful, unflinching examination of what it means to be a mother' -- Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures 'An absolute triumph of a novel ... I was riveted from the first page and couldn't stop reading. It's an absolute must-read' -- USA Today bestselling author Julianne Maclean
