They think New Zealander Mary McDougal could be the one and swoop off in turn to investigate. MOTHER, MOTHER by Annie Macmanus (Wildfire £16.99, 352 pp)MOTHER, MOTHERby Annie Macmanus (Wildfire £16.99, 352 pp)Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac makes her fiction debut with this affecting coming-of-age story. Two stories really: the first about Belfast teen Mary, who falls pregnant during her A-levels in the late 1990s. Poor Mary has an uphill struggle from the start; her mother is dead, her father’s an alcoholic and her brother’s a junkie. Ultimately, it all gets too much and she disappears, prompting TJ, in the second plotline, to launch a desperate search.

Source: Daily Mail May 27, 2021 21:00 UTC