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...dead Asian friend’s novel as her own....
...Ann was on the front porch, just out of her mother Alice’s earshot, and he put a hand on his youngest’s shoulder to stop her from going in....
...In the UK, Lowena’s mother, Rachel, is in charge of cash flow and business plans, while her sister, Alice, is book-keeper. “We couldn’t have done it without them,” says Lowena....
...It boasts not just one mother (Toni Collette) and her increasingly fractious relationship with her husband (Gabriel Byrne) and two teenage children, but also involves her own recently deceased mother (an...
...I’d spent the day before at Nana’s house — my mother’s mother Ophelia Joyce, who helped raise me, and whom I love. But her house was a little dark and smelt of jollof rice and fried fish....
...The Hero of Mullingar arrives at the Newbury Hotel, up by the railway station, at one end of what James Joyce described as the town’s “long crooked main street”....
...No great shakes as a legislator, as a vice-presidential candidate she hadn’t even been able to carry her own district....
...Baby Love, Rebecca Walker’s recent account of pregnancy and childbirth, includes a stinging criticism of her own mother, the Pulitzer prize-winning writer and feminist Alice Walker, for assorted maternal...
...So, in very different ways, do oils by Alice Neel and the unflinching Joyce Gunn-Cairns, two painters astonishingly honest about age and disease....
...Meanwhile their half-sister is reunited with the mother who abandoned her as an infant....
...THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK by Alice Munro Chatto & Windus ₤15.99, 368 pages The acknowledged mistress of the short story transforms the raw material of her family history into a treasure-trove of pieces...
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