The best books to give on Mother s Day
If your mum is a book lover, these are some lovely reads to gift her with on Mothering Sunday. Good Housekeeping
Many of us haven t been able to see much of our mums in the last few months so no doubt would like to spoil them on Mother s Day, which falls on Sunday 14 March this year. If your mum is a book lover why not give the gift of words to show her how much you think of her? The gift of a book is a failsafe option. But with so many titles out there, it can be hard to choose the right one.
Things are stacked against women’s writing. Can a new prize for women writers really change things?
Novelist Shashi Deshpande fears the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will not add dignity and prestige to women’s writing overnight. Feb 21, 2021 · 08:30 am Eimear McBride, winner of the 2014 Bailey s Women s Prize for Fiction, for A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing . | Neil Hall / Reuters
The announcement of a prize for women writers in the USA and Canada, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, has attracted much attention for two reasons. One, the prize money is very large (150,000 Canadian dollars for the winner alone), next only to the Nobel Prize. And two, the prize is exclusively for women writers.
by Mary Lawson (Chatto £14.99, 304 pp)
Anne Tyler is a fan of this Canadian author and you can see why: Lawson is intrigued by the same, deceptively ordinary, small-town lives.
This is set in a far-flung community in the north of Canada during the 1970s, and centres on the relationships between three people: an eight-year-old girl, Clara, whose older sister, Rose, has just run away; Mrs Orchard, her elderly, hospitalised neighbour; and Luke, the man Mrs Orchard loved as a little boy and to whom she has bequeathed her house in her will.
Clara, worried sick about her sister, is struggling to navigate the strange world of adults with its lies and half truths; Luke is battling to put his broken marriage behind him and work out who he is; while Mrs Orchard, aware she has not long to live, is seeking peace with a life that has been by turns terribly unhappy and misunderstood.
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