A courageous story about a mother in crisis from one of Norway's most exciting writers, for readers of Boulder and Detransition, Baby

Silje Marie has been keeping a secret from her wife. She loves one of her sons more than the other.

In their sleepy suburb of Oslo, she's given Henry and Olav the childhood she never had: organic cotton clothing, a house by the forest, apple pies baked with Grandma on summer afternoons.

But when Silje Marie stays behind to clear the house for an upcoming renovation, buried thoughts resurface. She is haunted by the sense that only one of her children truly feels like her own-an admission that would destroy her wife, Helene. Worse still, there is the other mother. A woman befriended in secret, whose son's resemblance to Henry is impossible to ignore.

Spiky, daring and feverishly intense, this is a story about the complex confinement and joy of family life, and a mother drawn towards dismantling the home she has fought so hard to build.

'Raises impressive ruminations on the nature of this ownership we call love' Kenan Orhan, author of The Renovation

'Brave, well-written, distinctive' Morgenbladet

'Exceptionally powerful' Vårt Land

'Digs deep into the gnarly emotions hidden behind domesticity' Szilvia Molnar, author of The Nursery

"A darkly absorbing portrait of a woman in crisis, engulfed by the complexities of biology, queer family and motherhood" - Stylist

"All you want from a novel: brave, well-written, distinctive" - Morgenbladet

"Åmodt has written the first significant Norwegian lesbian family novel. Its discomfort is the book's most important quality. . . The Other Mother hit me like a punch in the stomach" - Klassekampen

"An exceptionally powerful novel about the gap between what we think and what we feel, how we wish the world to be and how we experience it" - Vårt Land

"Åmodt writes honestly and with great insight about significant ethical problems of family life" - Dag og Tid