P. Kirby’s Reviews > The Parasites > Status Update

I confess I like that Maria isn't mother of the year, and that point of fact, she's sort of bored with her children. Tired of the fallacy that motherhood turns every woman into MOTHER, the ultimate icon of nurturing, blah-blah-blah.

"He doesn't really love me," she said: "he only loves the idea he once had of me. He tries to keep it in front of him always, like the memory of a dead person...."

I've been on a book buying binge, because my retail therapy is books. This was cheap, never read du Maurier, thought, "Why not?"