Author:  Reeves, Gemma 
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 5 June 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (The Borough Press) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 288 pages
129 x 198 x 20 | 200g
'Haunting' Telegraph
 'Brilliant' Daily Mail
 'Profoundly moving' Marie Claire
 ‘Fresh and daring'
  KATE SAWYER
 ‘One of the best books I’ve read in a while … A real triumph’
  ELIZABETH MACNEAL
 'A complex story about motherhood, inheritance and the things we're willing to forsake in the name of desire'
  AMY TWIGG
 'A haunting novel … Overwhelming and seductive'
LUCIE ELVEN
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 ‘When my mother washed my hair she crooned, mamele, mamele, into my ear. Little mother, meaning little daughter, meaning you’re a good girl, Edie.’
  Edie lives with her partner Joanna in a crumbling country house in Broadstairs. They have spent over a decade together since the death of Harry, the third member of their polyamorous relationship. It’s a quiet, comfortable existence – but conversations about the mother who abandoned her have recently awoken in Edie feelings she long thought buried.
 Mamele is a stylish, searing drama about the complicated love between mothers and daughters, the indelible impact of estrangement and one woman fiercely coming into her own.