Mamele

MAMELE is a bold and beautiful literary novel about the shape of one woman´s life after a brutal estrangement from her mother.Gemma Reeves writes with extraordinary deftness and care of the difficult love between mothers and daughters, loneliness and aching desire, cultural inheritance and separation.Edie lives quietly in a crumbling country house in Broadstairs with her partner Joanna. They have spent two decades together since the death of Harry, the third member of their marriage. It´s a bohemian existence, but a happy one - and yet conversations about the mother who abandoned her have recently awoken in Edie feelings she long thought buried.Edie reflects on her childhood as part of the post-war Jewish Diaspora in Maida Vale, and the heady, hedonistic years of 1960s London when she experienced her sexual awakening.