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In her new book, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times , Oldfield talks about long having had “a hunch” that the notion of the nuclear family is “a weird building material for a society”. She doesn’t think it’s “sufficiently load-bearing for the weight placed on it, leaving lots of other options lying around, unloved”. And, she writes... See more
Lucy Denyer • Our middle-class commune (joint bank accounts, noisy sex and all)
In her novel Stones from the River, set in Nazi Germany, Ursula Hegi reveals the suffering of the “other” in a startling way.
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
But the issue of children and who looks after them has become, in my view, profoundly political, and so it would be a contradiction to write a book about motherhood without explaining to some degree how I found the time to write it. For the first six months of Albertine’s life I looked after her at home while my partner continued to work. This exp
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
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