Mum's The Word by Lorraine Turnbull
Genres: Scottish, Womens Fiction
When Ann-Marie Ross murders her abusive husband and feeds him to the pigs, she thinks she's got away with murder and secured the future of her Scottish cider farm. But she soon finds herself having to keep more than one deadly secret to protect those closest to her.
As four women embrace their new-found independence, Ann-Marie is tormented by the threat of discovery.
A darkly comic tale of murder, friendship and Love.
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Review
Ann-Marie’s husband is anything but nice so when she and her best friend Elaine decide that Billy (aka Bull) needs to have an “accident” it is rather shocking. I mean that is how we start off right out of the gate. Ann-Marie has big plans for her farm and those pigs aren’t welcome anymore.
It sounded like the perfect murder and the only person who was fairly sure they knew what really happened was Isa, Ann-Marie’s mother. But, her daughter suddenly wants to know more about her father’s death and then there is his brother and sister.
Poor Elaine has her own problems. Her husband doesn’t seem to want to take his marriage vows seriously and then there is her friend Sadie who also has a rather abusive husband.
This book was one of those dark humor ones that will leave you breathless. I loved every second of it. The women and their stories about friendship and coming out the other side of what life throws at you is so well written.
This one has my curious and I really like the title and cover. Thanks for sharing this review I have to check this one out.
This book sounds awesome! I love the cover!
I totally sympathise with Ann-Marie Ross. This sounds like a book I could really enjoy.
My kind of book!
Sounds like my kind of book.
Sounds like a great read, My kind of read.
Ooh – sounds really good!
Terrific cover, sounds like a story I would enjoy reading.
This sounds like an interesting story line that might be enjoyable to read.
I hope nobody “squealed” on her!
Cute cover. This book sounds awesome!
This sounds like a fantastic read!
interesting title and cover
I love a good dark humor book & this sounds like it will pull you in & make you want to finish it before you can putcit,put it,. I’m very interested to find out how Ann-Marie & Elaine get out of their conundrum! Thank you for your review.
Sounds like a good read for my mom and I. I’m starting to read to her since her eyesight isn’t as good as it used to be.
This book sounds like a fun read. Love the cover!
wow, I wasn’t expecting that blurb after looking at the cover! This sounds really good
Oh wow! That blurb does make you want to find out more!
This one sounds fun!
Really nice cover and excerpt, looking forward to reading this!
Thank you for sharing your review of Mum’s The Word, I am a fan of dark humor and this story sounds like a must read for me