Every Day Is Mother's Day

From the Booker Prize–winning author of Wolf Hall comes “a giddy cocktail of horror and gleeful anticipation” (Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times).

Evelyn Axon and her daughter, Muriel, barricaded in their once-respectable house, are surrounded by years of garbage—and plenty of family secrets, to boot. They completely baffle Isabel Field, the social worker assigned to help them. But Isabel has troubles of her own: an elderly father who wanders the streets, and a lover, Colin, who wants her...