Every Day Is Mother's Day

Dive into the darkly comedic and unsettling world of Evelyn Axon, a medium by trade, and her daughter Muriel, whose reclusive and squalid existence has become a growing concern for social services. Barricaded within their once-respectable home, amidst accumulating filth and disturbing secrets, they present an impenetrable enigma to Isabel Field, their latest assigned social worker. Isabel, already juggling the complexities of a clandestine affair with a married history teacher, Colin, and his unruly children, finds herself utterly out of her depth trying to comprehend the Axon household's bizarre dynamics. Mantel masterfully weaves a narrative that blurs the lines between empathy and repulsion, depicting the suffocating bonds of family and the tragic absurdity of human isolation. As Evelyn takes desperate measures to protect Muriel, and Muriel, in turn, acts to preserve her own twisted reality, the escalating tensions lead to consequences that are both horrifyingly tragic and, in Mantel's unique hand, unexpectedly hilarious.