Little Bandaged Days

'A chilling read Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, The Serial Killer 'Gripping . . . wonderfully written' Guardian 'Beautifully written and frighteningly honest' Sunday Express A mother moves to Geneva with her husband and their two young children. In their newly rented apartment, she is surrounded by everything she could possibly need to create a perfect family home. Her husbands job means he is almost never present, and her entire world is caring for her children making sure they are happy and fed and comfortable. But things arent perfect. Rather, they are unravelling, because the loneliness, the lack of sleep and the demands of two little ones are getting to this mother. She has never been so isolated, and once the children are in bed, the apartment itself begins to feel like a threat . . . Kyra Wilders Little Bandaged Days is a beautifully written, painfully claustrophobic story about a womans descent into madness. Unpredictable, frighteningly compelling and brutally honest, it grapples with the harsh conditions of motherhood and this mothers own identity, and as the novel continues, we begin to wonder just what exactly she might be driven to do.