Mother Complex

By Louise Stockman

She has two degrees, a sharp tongue, and a habit of waking up in the wrong bed. Meet Sadie: single mum, occasional freelance editor, full-time disaster. Her fourteen-year-old son, Finn, hasn't set foot in a school in over two years. He's running with the wrong crowd, dealing God-knows-what, and coming home later and later--if at all. But Sadie? She swears he's just "finding himself." Funded quietly by her well-meaning parents--who believe Finn's a gifted student and Sadie's still got it together--she's skidding from one hangover to the next, chasing validation in strangers' beds, self-medicating a brain that won't slow down, and scrolling past red flags with both thumbs. Is she a toxic influence or just a woman on the brink, cracking under the weight of modern motherhood, undiagnosed chaos, and her own spiralling shame? When a violent incident blows the whole illusion apart, Sadie is finally forced to look in the mirror--and at the boy she's supposed to be raising. Raw, raunchy, and ruthlessly honest, Mother Complex is a darkly funny, painfully real thriller about the fine line between bad choices and utter collapse.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5NP9R6J
• ISBN13: 9798280480469
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 148 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"