The
hope flower
Dettman, Joy
creator
author.
text
novel
Domestic fiction.
xna
2021
monographic
eng
419 pages ; 24 cm.
Lori Smyth-Owen isn't your average teenager - as you'd expect from the only girl in a family of twelve. Or they were a family, until their father took his own life to escape his bed-bound wife, too obese to leave her room. But for Lori and the remaining brothers, there is no escape from their volatile, mentally unstable mother. They raise themselves away from the gaze of the authorities, realising that though abandoned, they are now in charge. They can control everything, including their mother's food intake. In time, their mother emerges, after losing two-thirds of her body weight. But does she bring with her the seed of hope for a better future, or will all hell break loose?. -- Publisher's website.
adult
Joy Dettman.
"Lori and her brothers can survive anything, even their mother" -- cover.
Dysfunctional families
Fiction
Eating disorders
Fiction
Suicide
Fiction
A823.4
9781760984106
ANL:PDS
210216
20210329152739.0
000068694772
eng