Melissa Benn’s first novel, Public Lives, is availbable in Penguin. Madonna and Child, a book about motherhood, is published by Cape.
What makes a good mother? How many do you know? Perhaps you think you are one, or that your mother is – though it’s not very likely that you and your mother will agree on this....
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