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Night Waking, By Sarah Moss
www.independent.co.uk
[The Independent] - Like Maggie O'Farrell and Rachel Cusk before her, Moss conjures up the bleaker shores of motherhood, a place where meanness and bad temper "trickle into the future like nuclear waste". Into this already toxic landscape she introduces a parallel
Google News: Modern motherhood ... undermining women?
[Vancouver Sun] - In 2011, I read this essay by Rachel Cusk in Granta called Aftermath, which has just been expanded into a book-length memoir. The British author's description of the full-time mom sticks with me still. “The child goes through the full-time mother like
Guardian: Diary of a separation
[The Guardian] - I have, finally, weeks after the rest of the world, read Rachel Cusk's Aftermath, the ultra-candid memoir of the early days of her separation from her husband of 10 years. Having compulsively read the extracts, and followed the surrounding weeks of
Guardian: Nick Duerden enjoying a Famous Five book. Photograph: Martin Godwin
[The Guardian] - Obsessed by her career, she was customarily cruel to both her children and her first husband, whom she divorced with all the clinical elan of a 1950s Rachel Cusk. Anyone who watched Helena Bonham Carter bring her to such fantastic frigid life in the
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