The searing, provocative story of a mother with an explosive secret: the existence of a new friend, whose son looks unmistakably like her own

Silje Marie and her wife Helene have two young boys, Olav and Henry-each conceived with the help of a different sperm donor. They are a modern nuclear family, safely tucked away in the suburbs of Oslo, and about to gut their house to make way for lavish renovations.

Left alone to pack up their belongings, with only the scuttle of mice for company, Silje Marie begins to feel doubt creep in about her future with Helene. She is haunted by the forbidden thought that she shares a different bond with each of her sons, an unspoken distinction she cannot ignore. And then there is the other mother: a woman she has met in secret, whose son bears an uncanny resemblance to Henry.

The Other Mother is a fearless and darkly absorbing immersion into the mind of a mother in crisis. In spare, deeply affecting prose, it explores the vulnerable corners and tender highs of queer parenthood, telling the story of a family on the brink of unravelling.