By Bloomsbury on May 2, 2012
An extract from Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones…
“Beautifully written … A powerful depiction of grinding poverty, where somehow amid the deprivation, the flame of filial affection survives and a genuine spirit of community is able to triumph over everything the system and nature can throw at it.” Daily Mail
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction | Tagged family, parenting
By Canongate on September 13, 2011
Devastatingly honest and shockingly painful at times, Go To Sleep is a heart-wrenching story about one woman and her newborn child. It strips motherhood bare in the most unforgettable of ways. Here’s Helen Walsh talking about the book and reading from it.
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction | Tagged depression, motherhood, parenting
By Bloomsbury on August 23, 2011
It’s June of 1965 when Wrecker enters the world. The war is raging in Vietnam, San Francisco is tripping toward flower power, and Lisa Fay – a young innocent from a family farm down south – is knocked nearly sideways by life as a single mother in a city she could barely manage to navigate as just one.
Author Summer Wood gives us an insight into the novel, and its key themes, parenthood, change and children.
Posted in Fiction | Tagged parenting
By Bloomsbury on June 20, 2011
A victory for common sense!
Posted in Non-fiction, Parenting | Tagged parenting
By Bloomsbury on June 14, 2011
Do ‘milestones’ feel like millstones? Does the thought of waiting at the school gate make you more nervous than your five-year-old? Do you find yourself sometimes tempted to just let your children fight to the death? And does flicking through childcare books leave you feeling mostly bewildered and blamed? Then The Mumsnet Rules are what you have been waiting for…
Posted in Non-fiction, Parenting | Tagged parenting
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