This is an amazing book. It is very thought provoking and written so well. It tackles some hard subjects very well. A great book

This was a beautiful poignant tale .
A young girl suspects she has been adopted and takes us with her on a journey to find her mother
A well written and at times heartbreaking story .

Thankyou NetGalley for an ARC in return for an honest opinion

Joanna Glen's debut book The Other Half of Augusta Hope has to be one of my all-time favourite reads. It has stayed with me since the day I finished it and I recommend it to everyone, so All My Mothers had a lot to live up to.
All My Mothers is another fantastic read. It manages to be funny, poignant, and heartbreaking all wrapped up in the most beautiful writing that pulls you in from the very first page and captivates you until the very end.

I really liked this sad book, particularly the first half when Eva was a child trying to figure out her strange and dysfunctional family, while building a lovely friendship with the Blume family.

I don't think I connected quite as much with the parts set in Spain, and I felt frustrated with some of the characters, but overall a charming and emotional read.

All My Mothers by Joanna Glen is a wonderful story of relationships and friendships, from childhood to adulthood. Eva Martinez- Green and Bridget Blume are friends from childhood. Together and apart they discover about family, friends, love and death. The storytelling is spellbinding covering different countries and families.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.
Highly recommended

Loved this authors last book and was excited to read the next. Beautiful, uplifting yet at times a difficult read found I couldn't put it down. Look forward to Joanna Glen's next book already

After reading ‘The Other Half of Augusta Hope’, I was so excited to read ‘All My Mothers’. And I was not disappointed. Joanna Glen is rapidly becoming an auto-buy author for me - and this book is full of the same heart as Augusta Hope.
Eva Martinez-Green has two pivotal , life changing moments when she starts school: meeting Bridget Blume, and her teacher reading a book called ‘The Rainbow Rained Us’. Bridget becomes a lifelong friend, Bridget’s mother helps Eva to learn just what a mother can be like: loving and interested in her, unlike Eva’s own mother who has some serious mental health issues. In fact, Mrs Blume steps in to a mothering role for Eva, when Eva moves in due to her own mother having a prolonged stay in a clinic. Mrs Blume is Eva’s benchmark for being a mother for the rest of her life. For that short time she shows Eva affection, treats her like one of her own. Mrs Blume, along with her childhood book, leads Eva to realise that her mother isn’t her birth mother. And so begins the quest to find her.

Eva’s life in London helps the reader to learn about the characters, and when she starts to study in Cordoba, the real task of finding her birth mother begins.

I don’t want to give anything away, because I want you to read it!! It’s beautiful. I pretty much sobbed through the last couple of chapters, so have your tissues handy. But DO read it!!

Heartbreaking and uplifting in equal measure, All My Mothers explores what it is to feel like you belong somewhere and how maternal bonds dont always have to come from biological family members.
Eva is full of questions about her beginnings - but between her emotionally absent mother and her physically absent father, there is nobody to answer them. Eva is convinced that all is not as it seems. Why are there no baby pictures of her? Why do her parents avoid all questions about her early years? When her parents’ relationship crumbles, Eva begins a journey to find these answers for herself. Her desire to discover where she belongs leads Eva on a journey spanning decades and continents – and, along the way, she meets women who challenge her idea of what a mother should be, and who will change her life forever…

I couldn't put this book down. It was warm, engaging and a brilliant story all round. This book is a joy to escape into.

This book was absolutely beautiful.
The story is one of the live of Eva Martinez-Green, from her childhood up to adulthood, and the women who impact her life along the way. The concept of motherhood can be something that many of us struggle with - those who want to be mothers, those who have lost mothers, those of us who have difficult relationships, and all the different forms that that relationship can take in a person's life.
In this book, Eva's life is touched on by "mothers" in many different forms - her own mother, the mothers of friends, friends who become mothers, women who act as a mother figure to her. It's a coming of age story, but it's also a reminder to appreciate the different ways in which we are loved and the people who have helped shape us.
This book was one that I stayed up til 3am to finish, and even now, days later, is still on my mind.

‘The way you’ve always looked so happy to see me every single morning,’ I said. ‘That has honestly changed my life. It’s made me feel as if there must be something nice about me.’
(Aka the line that made me cry at a bus stop)

For as long as she can remember, Eva has been sure that her mother is not really her mother. As she starts a life long quest to find the truth, she encounters women throughout her life who make her question the role of a mother, and the relationship she has with her own.

This is Joanna Glen’s second novel and with just two books she has become an auto-buy author for me.

Do you have those books that you love just SO MUCH, hit you so hard and mean so much to you, but you worry that it was more about the circumstance in which you read it than the book itself? The Other Half of Augusta Hope, Joanna Glen’s debut was my favourite book I read last year, and I was worried All My Mothers wouldn’t live up to the hype that I had created for it.

I was so wrong. I listened to this on audiobook (narrated by Polly Edsell) (I relieved an eARC but am behind) and it was so beautifully told. I will 100% go and buy myself a physical copy like I did with Augusta Hope but I’m thrilled I listened to it first.

Joanna Glen has a beautiful way of filling her stories with detail while also managing to span a lifetime of her characters without making it seem cramped in the pages. Sometimes weeks or months pass in sentences, others days take chapters, but it feels incredibly natural. It’s flows perfectly. It never once felt rushed or off kilter. She has a real knack for writing characters who on the outside are nothing special, but who inside are just like you, and she draws out every insecurity and raw emotion to make you cry at bus stops. Or maybe that’s just me.

This is a book filled with emotion, longing, uncertainty. I adored each and every character (ok, not all of them-looking at you Christine Orson) and their relationships. I just felt like this book spoke to my heart directly, and it’s difficult to put that feeling into words.

Oh my goodness where to start. This book is absolutely wonderful. I loved The Other Half of Augusta Hope but this one is even better. It is so beautifully written, literally every sentence drips with meaning, and it is incredibly moving. I laughed and cried and just adored it. Glorious and highly recommended. Joanna - please don't stop writing!
With grateful thanks to NetGalley, Harper Collins UK and Joanna Glen for my copy in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed this book all the way through but I didn’t realise quite how much until it was over!
It tells the story of Eva Martinez Green from her early childhood until her mid Thirties and all the mothers she encountered on the way.
I just found it a lovely story and the relationships Eva has especially with her two best friends are just great
Highly recommended

All My Mothers is a touching story about family, self discovery and friendship which manages to strike just the right balance between sweet and sad.

The book has plenty of emotional moments where you really feel for Eva, whose mother is quite detached from her and her father leaves them both when Eva is young. Eva has always felt like her mother isn’t actually her birth mother but doesn’t have the proof. This wonder and uncertainty out to be something that affects a lot of her life.

We follow Eva as she makes a life long friend in Bridget Blume and her lovely family – particularly Bridget’s mother who feels like a really lifeline to Eva. Their relationship grows and changes and there are some really heartbreaking moments throughout this novel.

This book is beautifully written and takes the reader through Eva’s life with sensitivity and wonder, through the hard times and the moments of happiness. Underlying it all, though, is Eva’s uncertainty about where she really came from and this is something she is determined to find out more about.

I loved All My Mothers, perhaps even more than The Other Half of Augusta Hope (also by Joanna Glen, which I also enjoyed). I’d really recommend this beautiful read.

I enjoyed this book, the theme is topical, a heartfelt story of someone unsure of who their parents are? The book is set in the 1980's in London, England and then Cordoba, Spain.
Eva grows up with an emotionally distant mother and an absent father. She is unable to connect with them. As the book progresses, there are so many questions to be answered. It really is a journey for the reader as well..
Somehow the book looks at so many aspects of motherhood and relationships. There are many twists and turns. The mystery was painful, yet the story is tender and exquisite.
I will look for other books by this author, as this one I really recommend. Saying too much might lead to spoilers and its beauty is how the story unfolds.

I really liked this rambling story, the follow up to Joanna Glen’s Augusta Hope debut with a similar theme of feeling lost within your own family and how we find families. It is a slow paced walk through one person’s life and how she eventually finds her home. There is real sadness in here and I was thrilled that things all seemed to be working out near the end, before the final sad bit. While in some ways it could be shorter, tighter, I very much enjoy an amble through a novel and was glad that plot wasn’t shoehorned in.

This was a gripping account of a rootless girl growing up, and felt genuine at every stage. As she became engaged with other families she could cause havoc, without meaning it. This is a long and gripping book and I am so glad I read it. The descriptions of Cordoba made me feel I was there.

I’m left almost speechless by the power of the written word. Joanna Glenn’s writing is, at face value, so simple, but she really packs a punch and, to my surprise, this I has proved to be one of the most emotive books I’ve read in some time.

I loved Eva from the first pages. Clearly a list little soul, she has the strength of character on her first day at school to tell the teacher exactly how her name should be pronounced. The description of her friendships are remarkable; all the characters have strength and I felt privileged to be riding along with Eva on her journey to find the truth.

This is a title that I may not have been drawn to immediately as it sounded a little syrupy. I was wrong. It’s filled with insight into friendship, ,love , longing loss and the bonds between women. For the lyrical quality of the writing alone, this is a wonderful book and despite moments of heartache, I’m so pleased to have read it. Powerful and compelling from start to finish.

My thanks to the publisher for a review copy via Netgalley.

What a joy to read this is, both life-affirming and incredibly sad, with carefully drawn characters that leap from the page. Eva is desperate to belong, sure that her mother isn’t her real mother, and she experiences love in all its forms and in the end finds what she is looking for in many ways, not all expected. Córdoba is so vividly described that I want to go there now.

Eva begins to wonder if her mother is her real mother when there are no baby photos in the house.
Her father leaves and returns to his native Spain.and Eva takes refuge in her friends house.
She becomes close to her friends mother and realises what a mother should be like.
Eva travels to Cordoba to find some answers.
A really different and moving book with likable characters. It had me thinking about it long after I had finished it.

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