Mother-daughter relationship

This intimate memoir explores the contradictions of being a parent, a partner and an artist – singly, and all at…

Hadley Freeman’s Good Girls is ruthless and revealing on her illness but too soft on our culture’s damaging obsession with…

By Megan Nolan

The Italian novelist considers the new adaptation of her dark seaside tale.

By Melissa Denes

A Ghost in the Throat draws on a forgotten 18th-century masterpiece to correct the erasure of women from history.

By John Self

To Throw Away Unopened tests her understanding of herself against the story of her parents’ marriage and deaths.

By Lavinia Greenlaw

The truth is I don’t want to be a full-time carer, any more than I wanted to be a full-time…

By Janice Turner