Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

You Be Mother

By: Meg Mason
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

What do you do when you find the perfect family...and it's not yours?

The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pack up her old life in Croydon fast enough, to start all over in Sydney and make her own family.

It is not until she arrives, with three-week-old Jude in tow, that Abi realises Stu is not quite ready to be a father after all. And he is the only person she knows in this hot, dazzling, confusing city, where the job of making friends is turning out to be harder than she thought.

That is, until she meets Phyllida, her wealthy, charming, imperious older neighbour and they become almost like mother and daughter.

If only Abi had not told Phil that teeny tiny small lie, the very first day they met....

©2021 Meg Mason (P)2021 Orion Publishing Group
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Rachel Incident cover art
Her Daughter’s Secret cover art
The Child in My House cover art
The Other Woman cover art
Something Quite Beautiful cover art
The Split cover art
The Forgotten Locket cover art
The Last Week of May cover art

Critic reviews

"Rare and delightful.... A beautifully crafted novel about female relationships. I couldn't put this book down." (Marie Claire)

What listeners say about You Be Mother

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    161
  • 4 Stars
    61
  • 3 Stars
    21
  • 2 Stars
    7
  • 1 Stars
    3
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    155
  • 4 Stars
    44
  • 3 Stars
    16
  • 2 Stars
    6
  • 1 Stars
    9
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    136
  • 4 Stars
    67
  • 3 Stars
    18
  • 2 Stars
    6
  • 1 Stars
    4

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Absorbing listen

This is a wonderfully easy but absorbing story. My only criticism would be the narrator’s strange and at times incorrect pronunciation of relatively normal words.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Soul felt

Yes I really enjoyed this book. It made me feel something..like a beautiful song that sticks once every so often. I cried for Abbey..more than once..
overall 9/10

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

lovely book, good listen

Heartwarming. strongly recommended. read beautifully too. beautiful characters, well thought out and developed very nicely

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Enjoyable listen

It took several attempts to get into this book, but I think that was more down to my concentration than the story. I wasn’t sure what to expect. It was a heartfelt story though I felt the main character’s personality could have been developed more, early on, as many aspects of her felt unfinished/unexplained although in some respects the sense created by this reflected her character well. It was a curious mixture of a happy, cozy, humorous story mixed with devastation, dire consequences and misery. Overall a memorable and enjoyable listen.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Great book, well narrated

This book is beautifully observed and beautifully written. As others have said, it takes a really interesting look at female relationships. However, my reason for writing the review is to strongly disagree with an earlier review of the narrators performance. I am 57 and visually impaired. I have been listening to audiobooks since I was 10 and I am a very harsh critic of narrators. I thought this one did a really good job.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant read

Took a few chapters to get into it, but was so beautifully written, and really moving. Had me gripped, listened to the whole thing in days despite it being so long. Highly recommend.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Emotional connection

I felt a real emotional connection to the characters in this well formed story. The narration was excellent and brought the characters and story to life.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

So amazing

Meg Mason must never ever stop writing. I loved this one just as much as Sorrow and Bliss and cried and laughed in equal measure. She is so talented.
I thought the auditor of the book was incredible and the accents perfect. Love love love

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Good story and excellent narrator!

I enjoyed this book very much. The narrator was so good throughout and the story was interesting.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

A lovely read :)

I didn't quite know where this was going, but it was a lovely read :)

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful