Mothers Don't

Author: Agirre, Katixa

Fiction & related items

Published on 21 July 2022 by 3TimesRebel Press in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 224 pages, Cover illustration created by Anna Pont
128 x 198 x 20 | 274g

A mother kills her twins. Another woman, the narrator, is about to give birth. She is a writer and realises that she knowsthe woman who killed the children. An obsession is triggered. She takes a leave of absence, not to nurture her baby, but towrite. To investigate the hidden truth behind the crime. This book is halfway between a thriller and a journalistic chronicle. A novel about the primal guilt that comes with being a mother. Katixa Agirre also reflects on the relationship between motherhood and creativity, in dialogue with other female writers such as Sylvia Plath and Doris Lessing. The result is an unprecedented and profoundly disturbing book, in which no real answers are offered but more contradictions emerge.