Mothers and Sons

<p><b>A stunning collection of nine stories that teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons.</b><br><br><b>'Beautifully captured moments of longing and loss' <i>The Guardian</i><br><br>'Truly remarkable' Richard Ford</b><br><br><i>Mothers and Sons</i> is a sensitive meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each story focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts; in which a mother or son do battle, or experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving their conception of who they are subtly or seriously altered.<br><br><b>This is an acute, masterful and moving collection that confirms Colm Tóibín as a great prose stylist of our time.</b><br><br>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern lite