A Good Enough Mother by Sheila Norton is a masterpiece story of a family finding their way through an emotionally difficult life.
Sheila Norton has hit all the feels for me and I was invested in the story from the beginning to the brilliant end.
My emotions ran wild throughout this story and I would love to see this become a Netflix hit.
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A single mothers struggles.



I was thrilled to be asked to read and review this book. Jess is a single mother of two young children. She works part time and has no family to help her with the children. Her mother is not alive and her dad is estranged. Her ex didn't want to be a father.

So when her neighbors are friendly and white taken with her children she thinks she might make friends and have an occasional sitter.

Then work wants more from her so the neighbors offer to watch the kids for Jess. She feels she has no choice but to let them watch the children. She likes Helen and her husband and the kids do too.

Things happen and Mia her daughter seems to tell more stories or lies and Jess begins to doubt herself.


I could not put this book down. It was so good. The author showed the struggles band emotions of a single mother realistically. I enjoyed Jess and her progress seeing her doubts and concerns.

A first from the author for me to rad but it won't be the last.


I highly recommend this book for drama and realistic fiction


Definitely will sell at the store.


4 stars


Thank you net galley Goodwood books and the author

Thank you for the advanced copy of this in an exchange for a review.
It's my first book by this author, it took me a couple of chapters to get into it but then I was settled into the story.
Great writing, excellent characters, was not too predictable.

Overall I enjoyed this.

Jess is a single mother with 2 small children, who works part-time, and tries to stay on top of getting her daughter to school and her son to nursery on time and picking them up on time. She struggles but doesn't think she has other alternatives and when her job wants her to work more hours, she accepts her downstairs neighbor's offer of helping her.
The neighbors send off mixed signals, which will keep you reading. Jess's instinct seems to be telling her to not be so trusting, but she needs their help, She doesn't have anything for sure that something is going on, but one day when she was at the neighbors, their phone rand, and she decided to pick it up, and caller ID saw it was her ex-husband.
She and the neighbors had a long discussion, and she learned a lot, and they learned a lot. Jess also reconnected with her father, who she hadn't talked to in years. I liked the title because everyone makes mistakes, and one thing she learned was she was a good enough mother and that is what mattered.
I received an ARC from Boldwood Books through NetGalley.

Total review 3 1/2 stars

Jess is a single mother with 2 small children, she works part time in the local bookshop in town. When they want to increase her hours she is going to need a childminder to help mind her children when she works. Helen and Robert her neighbours in the flat downstairs offer to help her out. At first it works out great but then her daughter Mia starts telling her about how mean Helen is to her and Archie. Has Jess made a very big mistake asking the neighbours to look after her children or are they hiding something from her?

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, Jess was such an endearing character.

I did become a bit frustrated that she was too trusting towards Robert and Helen, but understood why she was drawn to them. I found their actions to be so odd, I did think that there was an unknown relationship, being wrong made me feel that they were even worse!

The relationship between Jess and her dad were my favourite and that she finally had him back in her life. The ‘chats’ with her mum made me a tad emotional.

This is such a lovely read, add it to your TBR!

Tackles heartfelt subjects with tenderness, this is a good read, pulls at the heartstrings for sure. I really do recommend it.

"A Good Enough Mother" is a story about a single mum with 2 kids that leaves her relationship and starts fresh in a small flat. She relies on the couple downstairs, who are the same age as her parents, to look after her kids while she works. It all seems too perfect to true, which of course it is as she uncovers things about the couple that send off alarm bells in her mind.
I found the book to be a quick read as the story was very easy to follow but in saying that is was very predictable and a little boring and it just didn't draw me in as there was no real element of suspense or twist that you didn't see coming.

Took a little while to get into this book, but once I got through the first 3 or 4 chapters I was totally hooked. Liked the characters and setting of the story. Would like very much to read more by this author.

At time this book did come close to home and for that reason I don't usually read books with similar plots but this one drew me in and had me wanting to find out about the stories Mia was telling and find out the truth behind them.