For her latest novel, Jane Caro spent 18 months researching coercive control and domestic abuse. To understand its complex machinations, she spoke to survivors, judges, police, lawyers, ex-prisoners and those working in the sector.
The longtime writer and social commentator poured everything she learned into The Mother, a domestic thriller about a woman who becomes concerned when her daughter withdraws in a new marriage. The plot of the book arose from Caro’s anger at how little is being done to protect women in Australia, but it is also about how far a mother will go to protect her children.
