Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot review – Anne Enright celebrates a landmark feminist novel | Imagination
TeaThere is a growing literature of maternal flight: novels about women who abandon not only their husbands but also their children. In the real world, men are more often fugitives; The father’s relation to family life is considered incidental, while motherhood is revered as an internal state. This means that women who “un-mother” themselves are
