Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth

Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth**Longlisted for The International Booker Prize 2023** 'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art. The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial paintings have brought about a dramatic rift between parent and child. This new proximity, after

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the mother was a mother but then

Six traditional Irish songs

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