"Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute, in A Good Enough Mother Bev Thomas combines all the tension of a thriller with the emotional resonance of a powerful family drama."--Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train "Perfect for fans of The Silent Patient." --Booklist A riveting page-turner that lets us inside the secret world of therapist and patient, where boundaries get crossed, and events spiral out of control.
She lives in London with her family..
She currently works as an organizational consultant in mental health and other services.
About the Author: Bev Thomas was a clinical psychologist in the NHS for many years.
An utterly compelling drama with a timebomb at its core, A Good Enough Mother is a brilliant, beautiful story of mothering, and how to let go of the ones we love when we must.
And before long, the unthinkable becomes a shattering reality....
She is determined to help him, but soon, her own complicated feelings, about how she has failed her own boy, cloud her professional judgement.
Enter a new patient, Dan--unstable and traumatized--who looks exactly like her missing son.
She cannot give up hope of finding him, but feels she is living a kind of half-life, waiting for him to return.
The Mother of grown twins, she is haunted by the fact that her beautiful, difficult, fragile son Tom, a boy who never "fit in," disappeared a year and a half earlier.
But professional skill is no guard against private grief.
Ruth Hartland is a psychotherapist with years of experience. . . "Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute, in A Good Enough Mother Bev Thomas combines all the tension of a thriller with the emotional resonance of a powerful family drama."--Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train "Perfect for fans of The Silent Patient." --Booklist A riveting page-turner that lets us inside the secret world of therapist and patient, where boundaries get crossed, and events spiral out of control
