Mother’s Day

Juanita left her husband Benny and their son Davey nearly ten years ago. Benny met Lynda and her disabled son Samuel not long afterwards, and before long the families became one. Now Benny is dead, the day of the funeral has arrived, and Lynda struggles to maintain her formerly idyllic home. She almost believes she’s coping, until Juanita arrives on her doorstep, a stranger to everyone except Davey. Courttia Newland’s Mother’s Day is a tender and humorous examination of the British family in the 21st century.