Enter the world ofamp160The Wild Mothermodern fairytale bold biblical midrash filled with the psychological depth and imaginative originality for which the author of The Maeve Chronicles is known Elizabeth Cunninghams classic feminist novel is as fresh and timeless today as when it was first released in 1993 to critical acclaimAdam Underwood and Eva Brooke appear to be made for each other Both are single parents Both are academics he a dazzling enigmatic professor of Alchemy she a humble but dedicated professor of Fairytales Adams children Ionia and Fred share a latchkey after school with Evas precocious son Jason So why dont Adam and Eva marry and live happily ever afterEva cant help wondering Pathologically polite she cannot bring herself to ask personal questions She struggles not to find it strange that Adam has never so much as mentioned his childrens absent mother Nor has Adams own mothercumhousekeeper the feisty outspoken Ursula ever uttered her name Yet Eva glimpses the missing woman in tenyearold Ionias haunted and haunting purple eyes and in Ionias drawings of a woman dancing on the crest of a hill wild black hair spread out against the skyThen one night she returns Lilith the wild mother The precarious status quo that Eva Adam and their families have achieved is shattered and their world is turned inside out or more precisely outside inAs wild breaks into their lives Adam obsessed with control attempts to seal them all in a deadly trap Now a crucial challenge...
