Mum FaceIn this wry, resonant and darkly funny memoir, journalist Grace Timothy explores a question most women will face at some point: if becoming a mother means the person you were before has gone; who exactly is left in its place? Best described as The Wrong Knickers for mums, in Mum Face Grace explores motherhood as an issue of identity. What begins as shock and then denial of how your life will change has to become acceptance when youre too big to walk

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and Amitav Ghosh's reflective essay on the Indian practice of the short story as well as a wonderfully fluent translation of one of Tagore's most famous tales

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But what's that dark shadow slithering around the spell-casting range

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With no one else to rely on

The striving to share information

Grounded in research

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Burning Questions

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