Description
A MOTHER'S LOVE
Book Summary
A psychologist specializing in troubled youth faces her worst nightmare when the hell she deals with daily in her practice erupts in her own home. In this contemporary work of fiction, Marisa Hernández Arquero explores the limits of maternal love when reality surpasses any professional prognosis. A work that immerses the reader in a psychological thriller where the obsession for survival and the need to understand the incomprehensible become the sole driving force of a mother willing to do anything.
What is it about?
The protagonist, a clinical psychologist, carries out her daily work with adolescents and young people who have committed all kinds of crimes, from petty theft to murder. Her training and experience allow her to maintain a professional distance that protects her from the horror she handles every day. However, her world collapses when, inexplicably, that same hell she only knew through her patients materializes inside her own home. The novel chronicles her obsessive struggle to understand what happened and her desperate attempt to survive a situation that defies all her professional and personal certainties.
Main themes
- The limits of maternal love and the capacity for sacrifice
- The conflict between professional reason and emotional response to a family crisis
- Juvenile delinquency and its unpredictable consequences in one's immediate environment
- Obsession as a survival mechanism in the face of a real threat
- The fragility of daily life when unexpected violence breaks in
Who is it recommended for?
This work is aimed at readers interested in psychological thrillers with a strong emotional charge, those looking for novels that explore the complexity of family relationships in extreme situations, and those who enjoy plots where professional experience clashes with the harshest reality. It will also be of interest to professionals in the fields of psychology and social work who want to approach a fiction that addresses juvenile delinquency from a human and close perspective.
What this book offers
- A realistic and well-documented perspective on working with young offenders through fiction
- An intense tale that maintains narrative tension while exploring a mother's fear and obsession
- A reflection on how the professional and the personal can collide in a devastating way
- A story that invites the reader to question the limits of unconditional love
Technical specifications
- Author: Hernández Arquero, Marisa
- Publisher: Huerga y Fierro Editorial
- Language: Spanish
- Subject: Literature and literary studies, Modern and contemporary fiction
- Collection: Narrative
- Binding: Paperback
- Publication date: November 2017
- Number of pages: 242
- Weight: 752 g
Editorial review
A Mother's Love is a novel that successfully combines psychological thriller and family drama, offering a plot that hooks the reader from the initial premise. The author takes advantage of her knowledge of the psychological field to lend credibility to a story that, nevertheless, is sustained above all by the emotional strength of its protagonist. It is a recommended read for those looking for an intense narrative, with a very well-defined conflict and a development that maintains interest until the end.