Danielle Wood — Mothers Grimm

Allen & Unwin 2014 Paperback, 213pp. A sly, cheeky and blackly comic novel about mothering, heartache, heartbreak, desire, love and death, bringing the mothers of the Brothers Grimm into the here and now. 'Danielle Wood has turned four well-known fairy tales inside out and upside down, shaking out their secrets in order to illuminate the hidden fears and desires of four very modern women. Psychologically acute and mordantly witty, the stories in 'Mothers Grimm' unsettle the reader with their too-close-to-the-bone truths one moment, and cause a wry smile of recognition the next. ' Kate Forsyth, bestselling author of Bitter Greens. Uncorrected Proof. (ISBN: 9781741756746). Very Good.