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“... parents before we’re forced to confront the looming inevitability of our own death. Morrison, Tweedie (and Greer before them) waited, apparently needing their part in the paternal death before the tale could be told, but by then, childhood had long gone, and the past had been screened and skewed by the place the offspring had made for themselves in the ...”

“... as ‘how could he?’ You can’t magic his kind of trouble away. The Guardian columnist Jill Tweedie called me after my first piece appeared. I didn’t know her, but she was crying on the phone, saying there were things that she’d done in her past, childhood cruelties, that she had never recovered from, never even told her husband ...”

“... manner as her ghost. Almost all these stories have victims for whom the professional hearts of Jill Tweedie, Evelyn Home or Marjorie Proops would bleed: battered, deserted, betrayed, childless wives abound. But the narrative records suffering without sympathy and with a possible faint sarcasm – though the aftertaste is hard to identify. In one of ...”

“... are accusations of fanaticism, cultishness, sectarian behaviour. ‘Like Jehovah’s Witnesses,’ Jill Tweedie wrote in a 1976 piece reprinted in a collection of Guardian journalism, ‘Selma James and her sister enthusiasts … harangue conferences, shout from soapboxes, gesticulate on television, burn with a strange fever.’ Even Barbara Ehrenreich ...”