The dark world of anorexia
Hadley Freeman’s Good Girls is ruthless and revealing on her illness but too soft on our culture’s damaging obsession with…
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“True cinema trusts in images”: Elena Ferrante on Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter
The Italian novelist considers the new adaptation of her dark seaside tale.
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Motherhood and murder: Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s electrifying autofiction
A Ghost in the Throat draws on a forgotten 18th-century masterpiece to correct the erasure of women from history.
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Viv Albertine explores complex mother-daughter relationships in her powerful new memoir
To Throw Away Unopened tests her understanding of herself against the story of her parents’ marriage and deaths.
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The good daughter
The truth is I don’t want to be a full-time carer, any more than I wanted to be a full-time…
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