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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Paradise: get it while it’s still cheap
Lionel Shriver comes across as opinionated, abrasive, self-congratulatory and robust – not exactly the subtlest of writers. I don’t think she’s ever been a stylist; the kind of novelist, like Margaret Atwood, say, who was once and still is a … Continue reading
Race is a myth?
I almost did a blog at the time in response to Deborah Orr’s February Guardian column which apparently concludes, from a professional footballing incident, that the more we talk about race the more we are being racist. Then I thought better of it. I … Continue reading
Resolutely despairing
Heartrending piece in Guardian Family yesterday. In it, Bibi Lynch pleads with mothers to stop complaining about the stresses of our lives, for we are the truly lucky ones. She will never have the chance to complain about motherhood, for … Continue reading
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Tagged baby hunger, Bibi Lynch, childlessness, new motherhood, school-gate paranoia
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