Lisa Lloyd Audiobooks

Two words, and both of them loaded. Mum is about the most domestic noun in British English; unmasking is what you do when a performance has gone on too long. Unmasking Mum sets them side by side and lets the tension sit there unexplained, which is a confident thing for a memoir to do on its cover.

Lisa Lloyd reaches our catalogue with the recording shelved three ways at once: biographies and memoirs, health and wellbeing, personal development. That combination is telling. It describes the sort of first-person account written not only to be read as a life but to be useful to somebody who recognises their own situation inside it, and that is a harder balance to strike than either mode on its own.

The catalogue entry is still filling in. No narrator has been confirmed with us and the running time has yet to be published, which is ordinary for a recording at this stage rather than any comment on the work.

No listener verdicts have gathered either, so there is nothing yet to weigh. What can be said is where it will sit: alongside the memoirs people press on friends because the writing named something they had not previously found words for. If that is the corner of the shelf you browse, keep an eye on this one. The entry below carries the current details.