Posted on 10/05/08
Quiet, dear, Mummy's writing
DOUBLE LIVESWriting and MotherhoodEdited by Shannon Cowan,Fiona Tinwei Lam and Cathy StonehouseMcGill-Queen's University Press, 256 pages, $22.95Doubles Lives is a provocative collection of 25 essays about the influence and bearing motherhood has on being a writer, and vice versa. The majority are so well written that they undermine at least part of the book's premise: the terrible struggle between two all-encompassing occupations. However difficult it may have been, especially for the young mothers, to find the personal space, the musing time or simply a brain to write with, they did it and did it well.
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