Biff Ward
Sheila Fitzpatrick reviews 'In My Mother's Hands: A disturbing memoir of family life' by Biff Ward
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Friday, 01 August 2014
For anyone who has ever complained about a difficult mother, or written a memoir about one, this is a humbling book. How trivial, by comparison, our complaints seem. The subtitle promises (or threatens) a disturbing memoir, and so it is. I found it difficult to get out of my head days after reading it.
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August 2014, no. 363