Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling (Hardback)
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Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling (Hardback)

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Hardback 240 Pages
Published: 26/09/2024
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In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing to write all her life, in diaries that she’s kept since childhood. In these journals, she interrogates the emotionally abusive mother/daughter relationship, in great pain but determined to find a way through.

The result is a book that Gwyneth co-writes with her younger self, an unexpected and life-saving dialogue through time. Metaphors of haunting intensity help her confront what happened to her; quotations from art and literature help to guide and steady her. Nightshade Mother is a book about the power of art, language and, ultimately, about homecoming after a lifetime of exile from herself. It is a profoundly moving and beautiful work; questing, forgiving and loving in its approach.

Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 9781915279903
Number of pages: 240
Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 22 mm

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“Deeply personal yet warm, engaging and so readable”

My interest in the, thankfully, growing exploration of motherhood is what drew me to read this title, and my sincere thanks to the publisher for an advance copy.

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