Three Mothers (Trois Meres) (All For Love Book 2)

Three Mothers, (Trois Meres) is Patricia Dixon's second novel and is every bit as good as, if not better than, À Bientôt. Her writing and storytelling seems more flowing and confident in this book, not afraid to tell it how it is. Trois Meres is not a sequel to À Bientôt although some of the same characters do feature in this book, it's a stand alone novel which can equally be read as a prequel to À Bientôt - it gives a beautiful background to the French parts of À Bientôt. Briefly, this is the story of cousins Rosie and Tina, starting with their childhood and teenage years living in Manchester with their parents. Both have equally awful mothers in different ways, and both girls, and later young women, come to terms with and overcome the mental scars that haunt them for years. Rosie follows her dream of being a hotelier and ends up in France, while Tina marries her wealthy whirlwind heart throb who turns out to be a violent and vicious monster. I don't want to give the whole story away so won't go any further with that.

There were tense and, at times, quite viciously nasty parts in this book and I can see that there is a writer of a much more sinister genre just waiting to escape. I would love for her to write something a bit more dark and psychological – read this one and you'll understand which character I mean.

Patricia Dixon writes fluidly and interestingly and never leaves any loose ends. When a new character comes on the scene she gives a concise and engrossing outline of who they are and what sort of personality they have. Whose books are hers similar to? Well, the Manchester element reminded me of Mandasue Heller but her warmth and friendship within the story is much like Patricia Scanlan or Maeve Binchy - lovely fulfilling stories. I have read all Patricia's books in the All For Love series and each one is as good as the next.

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