I started at the beginning of 2019 and spent two years slowly building it. I wrote many drafts and finally sent it out [to publishers] towards the end of 2021.
The book examines mothering, identity, desire and loss and the terrible damage we can cause, despite ourselves.
Livia, Mickey and Summer are tied by blood but estranged and isolated, each masking pain that plays out in reckless and complicated ways.
Described as raw and beautiful by the novelist Francis Spufford, the book is alert to issues of inequality, generational trauma and race.
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