The Sugar Mother

Elizabeth Jolley

The Sugar Mother
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Persea Books Inc
Country
United States
Published
3 December 2010
Pages
224
ISBN
9780892553624

The Sugar Mother

Elizabeth Jolley

Edwin Page, a fussy middle-aged professor, no sooner bids farewell to his obstetrician wife, Cecilia, who accepted a fellowship abroad, when his new neighbors, Mrs. Botts and her sexy, twentyish daughter, Leila, arrive. Since they’re locked out of their house, Edwin invites them in-and then can’t get them to leave. He becomes obsessed with Leila and convinces himself that she is a perfect surrogate mother for the childless Cecilia. Wickedly amusing …subversive (New York Times Book Review), The Sugar Mother undoes the institution of marriage.

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