Sarah Aspinall -  Diamonds At The Lost and Found
Sarah grew up in the glittering wake of her irrepressible mother Audrey. Born into poverty in 1930s Liverpool, Audrey had always known that she was destined for better things and was determined to shape that destiny for herself. As Sarah grew older, she realised that theirs was a life hung about with mysteries. Why, for instance, had they spent ages living in a godforsaken motel in the Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina? Who had a hold over Audrey during several months in Cairo? And what on earth happened to the heirlooms that an ancient heiress gave Sarah when they visited her in Palm Springs? Diamonds at the Lost and Found tells how Sarah eventually freed herself from her mother’s gravitational pull to carve out a destiny of her own. It is a beguiling testament to dreams, defying convention and exasperated love.

Gavanndra Hodge - The Consequences of Love
When Gavanndra Hodge was seven years old, her world was a precarious place. She would extinguish smouldering cigarettes from her hairdresser father (who doubled as a drug dealer) and her mother (an alcoholic ex-model). Then, when Gavanndra was fourteen years old, one of the worst things imaginable happened to her family – her nine-year-old sister, Candy died suddenly, and Gavanndra watched her already fractured family implode. A huge critical success, this powerful memoir tells the story of Gavanndra on her journey to rediscover the memory of her lost sister Candy, unlocking hair-raising tales about her unconventional and bohemian childhood on the way. It is about loss and trauma, addiction and betrayal, but ultimately it is about the redemptive power of love.

Clover Stroud - My Wild and Sleepless Nights
​​​​​​​Clover's mother suffered a riding accident when Clover was just sixteen and, severely brain damaged, never regained the ability to communicate again, even though she died 22 years later. Everything Clover knew about family changed that tragic day. Now mother to five children, Clover has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative and profoundly insightful book, she captures a sense of what motherhood really feels like - how intense, sensuous, joyful, boring, profound and dark it can be. My Wild and Sleepless Nights examines what it means to be a mother, and reveals with unflinching honesty the many conflicting emotions that this entails: the joy and the wonder, the loneliness and despair.