The Mother Act: A Novel

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0593473728 ISBN13: 9780593473726 Release Date: April 2024 Publisher: Dutton Length: 400 Pages Weight: 1.34 lbs. Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.3" Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the relationship between an actress who refuses to abandon her career and the daughter she chooses to abandon instead. Sadie Jones, a larger-than-life actress and controversial feminist, never wanted to be a mother. No one feels this more deeply than Jude, the daughter Sadie left behind. While Jude spent her childhood touring with her father's Shakespearian theater company, desperate for validation from the mother she barely knew, Sadie catapulted to fame on the wings of The Mother Act--a scathing one-woman show about motherhood. Two decades later, Jude is a talented actress in her own right, and her fraught relationship with Sadie has come to a scandalous head. On a December evening in New York