From the author of Magda, an incisive dissection of matriarchal power-play set in the leafy suburbs of North London. Ziervogel evokes the age-old mother-daughter struggle - cast in contemporary role anxieties. Is Michele destined to be mother, wife, high-powered business woman or merely 'Clara's Daughter'? A moving read for our times. -- Morag Charlwood, Shoreham Wordfest A taut and compelling drama about the place of the elderly in family life and about how, in one way or another, it's the destiny of the old to be hidden away. It's also about how much a marriage can take, and what it eventually boils down to - clothes in bin liners. I enjoyed Clara's Daughter hugely; in this novella length story Meike Ziervogel has achieved a lot with, relatively speaking, a little. Reading it was like watching a very good play. -- Isabel Wolff, Sunday Times bestselling author of 'Ghostwritten' A quietly devastating book about the disintegration of a marriage. Moving the mother into the basement and then having the backwards and forwards structure creating a sense of the will-she-won't-she move in and detonate like a bomb down there or merely sit and rot like a huge dark fish while the marriage falls apart above is a stroke of genius. -- Natalie Young, author of 'Season to Taste' Meike Ziervogel is becoming one of the most interesting figures in the contemporary British and European world, not just because she is a publisher of imagination and daring, but a writer of grace, forensic precision, and power. Rarely has someone given so much from sheer enthusiasm, and talent, and been so worth watching. -- Nicholas Lezard