Every Day is Mother's Day [SEP] publisher
Every Day is Mother's Day
Every Day is Mother's Day is the first novel by British author Hilary Mantel, published in 1985 by Chatto and Windus. It was inspired in part by Hilary Mantel's own experiences as a social work assistant at a geriatric hospital which involved visits to patients in the community and access to case notes, the loss of which play an important part of the novel.
Plot introduction.
It is a black comedy set in the mid-1970s and begins with the widowed spiritualist Evelyn Axon's
Dirt." Sep. 2000 (profile of Maine potato farmer),
- "Edible Complex." Sep. 2000 (art),
- "Flour Power." Sep. 1999 (art),
- "The Secret Life of Language: High School Semiotics." Nov. 1983 (education),
- "Divorce: The Damage (Not) Done." Spring 2002 (essay/book review),
- "Mother's Day: Why we should be thanking Louisa May Alcott and Marmee."