Gram Mother: Portobello Novella Series 3 by Jaqi Loye-Brown

The third in her Portobello Novella series, Jaqi Loye-Brown’s ‘Gram Mother’ casts a random eye over the life and loves of the enigmatic Myrtle, a watercolour artist approaching fifty and running on that last little something in the tank.

Myrtle’s decadent lifestyle threatens to subjugate the precarious mother and daughter bond as she struggles to bring up teenager Severign in West London.

Without an ounce of recrimination, ‘Gram Mother’ is the concluding part to Jaqi’s debut contemporary chick-lits DJ Whore and DJ Wags: Housewives Of House.