The Book of George by Kate Greathead is absolutely focused on the life of a guy called George, but the most interesting character was George’s mother. Or more specifically, the bit that had me intrigued, was George’s relationship with his mother, Ellen – fraught, inadequate, over-bearing, intense… you could throw any number of words at it, and they’d probably fit.
The story begins with George as a young boy –
George struggled to grasp the nuances of his mother’s contempt, but it was the beginning of his awareness of a problem in his parents’ marriage that had to do with his father’s love of expensive clothes. Continue reading
