Mothers Don't

A mother kills her twins. Another woman, the narrator, is about to give birth. She is a writer and realises that she knowsthe woman who killed the children.<br><br>An obsession is triggered. She takes a leave of absence, not to nurture her baby, but towrite. To investigate the hidden truth behind the crime.<br><br>This book is halfway between a thriller and a journalistic chronicle. A novel about the primal guilt that comes with being a mother. Katixa Agirre also reflects on the relationship between motherhood and creativity, in dialogue with other female writers such as Sylvia Plath and Doris Lessing.<br><br>The result is an unprecedented and profoundly disturbing book, in which no real answers are offered but more contradictions emerge.