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The chilling horror debut from #1 international bestselling author Karma Brown, about sacrificing everything to one's art.
Mathilde "Tilly" Crewson, a thirty-nine-year-old mother and art conservator, is tasked with restoring The Mother. The painting, believed to be the work of a female surgeon-turned-artist after a personal tragedy, is the rumored fourth piece in a collection of only three known works. But this newly discovered painting, scarred by fire, holds more than meets the eye.
Soon after receiving the painting, Tilly discovers she's unexpectedly pregnant, and strange, inexplicable occurrences begin: terrifying insect swarms, eerie visits from her long-deceased mother, and sinister whispers that invade her mind. As these malevolent forces intensify, Tilly comes to a harrowing realization that the only way to sever the perilous bond she shares with the painting is to destroy it. But The Mother has plans of her own-and they're darker than Tilly could ever imagine. As Tilly's obsession with the mysterious painting spirals into a nightmarish descent, the line between reality and the supernatural shatters, threatening both her sanity and her life. Karma Brown is the author of ten novels, including Mother is Watching, the #1 international bestseller Recipe for a Perfect Wife, What Wild Women Do, Come Away with Me (a Globe & Mail Best Book of 2015), Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestsellers The Choices We Make and In This Moment, and The Life Lucy Knew. She is also the author of the bestseller The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life. An award-winning journalist, Karma has been published in SELF, Redbook, and Chatelaine, among other outlets. She lives just outside Toronto with her husband, teenage daughter, and a Labradoodle named Fred. "Mother Is Watching is a page-turning nightmare of a novel featuring a maybe-possession as well as a too-possible future technocratic patriarchy. Not since Ira Levin's Rosemary Woodhouse have I been as stressed out and scared for a mother-to-be as I was for Tilly."
- PAUL TREMBLAY, NYT bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts "Set in a birth-obsessed dystopian future, art conservator Tilly begins work on a mysterious painting, The Mother. But as Tilly's work turns to obsession, her grip on reality slips (or does it?). Mother is Watching is eerie, compulsive, almost fanatical, about the fine line between motherhood and grief, and obsession and reality-a gripping, chilling entrance into the horror genre for the brilliant Karma Brown."
- ASHLEY TATE, #1 national bestseller of Twenty-Seven Minutes "The horror in Mother is Watching is not just Frankenstein by way of art conservation-which it is, terrifyingly-but the chilling near-future Karma Brown paints: one in which motherhood is commodified and controlled, and grief is the monster that must not be reanimated. I flew through this novel from the first page to its shattering end."
- KATIE GUTIERREZ, bestselling author of More Than You'll Ever Know "Haunting, visceral, and eerily compelling, Karma Brown has expertly blended genres with Mother is Watching. Horror, dystopian, and feminist literature all fit together perfectly-it's like Margaret Atwood meets psychological thriller, in the best way possible. You'll never look at motherhood the same way again once you read this: Brown prods at it from angles you didn't know were there, making it impossible to look away."
- KRISTEN PERRIN, NYT bestselling author of How To Solve Your Own Murder "Karma Brown explodes onto the horror scene with a terrifying tale of governmental control over women's bodies, procreation, and what mothers will do to protect their children. In Mother is Watching, Tilly, an art conservator and newly pregnant, pushes back on requirements the government places on pregnant women while at the same time grappling with her own mother's tragic death. But something even darker
Mathilde "Tilly" Crewson, a thirty-nine-year-old mother and art conservator, is tasked with restoring The Mother. The painting, believed to be the work of a female surgeon-turned-artist after a personal tragedy, is the rumored fourth piece in a collection of only three known works. But this newly discovered painting, scarred by fire, holds more than meets the eye.
Soon after receiving the painting, Tilly discovers she's unexpectedly pregnant, and strange, inexplicable occurrences begin: terrifying insect swarms, eerie visits from her long-deceased mother, and sinister whispers that invade her mind. As these malevolent forces intensify, Tilly comes to a harrowing realization that the only way to sever the perilous bond she shares with the painting is to destroy it. But The Mother has plans of her own-and they're darker than Tilly could ever imagine. As Tilly's obsession with the mysterious painting spirals into a nightmarish descent, the line between reality and the supernatural shatters, threatening both her sanity and her life. Karma Brown is the author of ten novels, including Mother is Watching, the #1 international bestseller Recipe for a Perfect Wife, What Wild Women Do, Come Away with Me (a Globe & Mail Best Book of 2015), Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestsellers The Choices We Make and In This Moment, and The Life Lucy Knew. She is also the author of the bestseller The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life. An award-winning journalist, Karma has been published in SELF, Redbook, and Chatelaine, among other outlets. She lives just outside Toronto with her husband, teenage daughter, and a Labradoodle named Fred. "Mother Is Watching is a page-turning nightmare of a novel featuring a maybe-possession as well as a too-possible future technocratic patriarchy. Not since Ira Levin's Rosemary Woodhouse have I been as stressed out and scared for a mother-to-be as I was for Tilly."
- PAUL TREMBLAY, NYT bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts "Set in a birth-obsessed dystopian future, art conservator Tilly begins work on a mysterious painting, The Mother. But as Tilly's work turns to obsession, her grip on reality slips (or does it?). Mother is Watching is eerie, compulsive, almost fanatical, about the fine line between motherhood and grief, and obsession and reality-a gripping, chilling entrance into the horror genre for the brilliant Karma Brown."
- ASHLEY TATE, #1 national bestseller of Twenty-Seven Minutes "The horror in Mother is Watching is not just Frankenstein by way of art conservation-which it is, terrifyingly-but the chilling near-future Karma Brown paints: one in which motherhood is commodified and controlled, and grief is the monster that must not be reanimated. I flew through this novel from the first page to its shattering end."
- KATIE GUTIERREZ, bestselling author of More Than You'll Ever Know "Haunting, visceral, and eerily compelling, Karma Brown has expertly blended genres with Mother is Watching. Horror, dystopian, and feminist literature all fit together perfectly-it's like Margaret Atwood meets psychological thriller, in the best way possible. You'll never look at motherhood the same way again once you read this: Brown prods at it from angles you didn't know were there, making it impossible to look away."
- KRISTEN PERRIN, NYT bestselling author of How To Solve Your Own Murder "Karma Brown explodes onto the horror scene with a terrifying tale of governmental control over women's bodies, procreation, and what mothers will do to protect their children. In Mother is Watching, Tilly, an art conservator and newly pregnant, pushes back on requirements the government places on pregnant women while at the same time grappling with her own mother's tragic death. But something even darker