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How Does 'The Other Mothers' End?

Heard conflicting theories about the novel's finale. Wondering how the psychological thriller resolves the mystery and character fates.
2026-07-27 00:01:26
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Jacqueline
Jacqueline
This ending was a very surprising reveal about the real mother and her reasons for her actions. The way that the dark family secrets are revealed in this very public and irreversible way reminded me of the high-stakes tension of ‘One pregnancy, two babies’. A single secret pregnancy had created a complex web of deceit between two families, and the whole story had been building towards the ultimate revelation of who would claim the babies and how their lies would be exposed to all. Each character had been hiding secrets of their own which threatened to explode at any moment.
2026-07-28
Wesley
Wesley
Just finished The Other Mothers by Alexia Jaudon and I am completely speechless. The ending of this book was so shocking to me. It seemed that all of the mothers in the neighborhood were so perfect, but oh no, they were covering up a murder. The main character is a journalist and she is trying to uncover who killed the nanny. She finally finds out that one of her friends was involved in the nanny's murder.

What is most chilling in the book’s final pages is how the group of mothers turn against each other, with one fleeing the country, another confessing to having manipulated evidence in the case. The author leaves us with a sense of unresolved tension, as the protagonist struggles to come to terms with the unease she now feels towards all the mothers in the neighborhood, the realization that some secrets are too deep to be brought to light, and that some people are monstrous just because they are pleasant to meet.
2026-07-28
Mma Agetua
Mma Agetua
Structurally, the ending is beautiful because it bookends back to the imagery of chapter one. The perfectly iced cupcake of fabricated perfection is the first thing we see in the story and then we see the protagonist years later baking a big, lopsided cake with her child. It’s homemade. There’s icing all over the place. The plot takes a long time to get to this place, but in the end the reputation of the antagonist is destroyed by the very social media that she uses to try to control people and she finds out in a very modern and poetic way – a video of her true self, being as cruel as she is, leaks out and she’s despised by everyone. The protagonist doesn’t get a trophy at the end of the story. What she gets is her time back, her peace, and her real relationships with real people.
2026-07-28
Cassidy
Cassidy
The ending to ‘The Other Mothers’ is quite fantastic, culminating with the main character finally finding out what really happened to the nanny and it not being an accident, but rather a set-up by the ‘elite’ mothers in her circle. The final scenes are packed with lots of confrontations, lots of shouting, tears and even one of the characters making a run for it. After the protagonist has uncovered all the secrets of the nannies’ deaths, he is left all alone in the neighborhood, the facade of which has crumbled. And it’s not even. He had expected it to be tidy in the end, but it’s not. In fact, it shows quite clearly just how far people are prepared to go to preserve their perfect image.
2026-07-29
maritess66
maritess66
I was shocked in one place for one paragraph of pure body horror, and then was returned to the reality of the rest of the ending of the story. The story ended with the protagonist discovering the truth in the antagonist’s greenhouse. Brief description of what was among the flowers there. And then the story continued. The rest of the story followed the protagonist through the mundane activities to complete police reports, while she was left to carry that image alone. And then in the final sentence, the protagonist was tending to her own small window box of herbs, trying to keep them alive and healthy. Simple. Clean. Chilling in contrast. Brilliant.
2026-07-30

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