ASIN: B00O1QZP54
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 447
'Mother Stands for Comfort' is Guy A Johnson’s fifth novel – the much anticipated sequel to 'White Goods'. His darkest work to date, it picks up exactly where 'White Goods' left off – the lid of a chest freezer is lifted and a petrified boy is pulled from its icy well. But the child won’t talk – and his rescuer doesn’t know who he is. He should take the boy to the police – but that’s the one thing he can’t do. Instead, in the dead of night, he leaves him on a stranger’s doorstep... Oliver has spent a lifetime torturing his mother with threats and foul behaviour. When he is lured into a stranger’s house by an older boy, he finally meets his match… Jake hates his alcoholic mother and lives in fear of his half-brother, Toby. But a chance encounter leads to kindness and an unexpected way out… Brian lives in strained tolerance of his mother, a woman who’s convinced her abusive ex-husband ...
