Yvvette Edwards' second novel The Mother tells Marcia's story Today Marcia is heading to the Old Bailey She's going there to do something no mother should ever have to do to attend the trial of the boy accused of her son's murder She's not meant to be that woman; Ryan her son wasn't that kind of boy But Tyson Manley is that kind of a boy & as his trial unfolds it becomes clear that it's his girlfriend Sweetie who has the answers Marcia so badly needs & who can
- perhaps
- offer Marcia some kind of hope for the future But Sweetie is as scared of Tyson as Ryan should have been & as Marcia's learned the hard way nothing's certain Not any more Somehow I am stronger Where it has come from exactly I cannot say but it is to do with hope it is to do with light