Abandoners

Abandoners

EnglishHardback
Gómez Urzaiz, Begoña
HarperCollins Publishers
EAN: 9780008656072
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‘The best kind of book: the one you didn’t know you were craving until it appeared . . . self-interrogative, intricately perceptive. I absolutely inhaled it’ JIA TOLENTINO

‘A very richly interesting exploration of a complex subject. Begoña Gómez Urzaiz tells the stories with such intelligence and wit and generosity’ TESSA HADLEY

When it comes to children: a man leaves, a woman abandons

Ingrid Bergman, Muriel Spark, Maria Montessori, Joni Mitchell … what do these vastly different women have in common?

During the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist Begoña Gómez Urzaiz became fixated on artistic women who were able to overcome both society’s judgement and their own maternal instincts in order to leave their children. More than anything, she was fascinated by her own prejudice towards these women, so clearly tied up in a much wider cultural bias.

Using famous examples including Doris Lessing, fictional ones such as Anna Karenina, and interrogating modern trends like Momfluencers, Begoña reveals what our judgement of these women tells us about our judgement of all women.

‘The best book I've read on the implications of motherhood and its opposites after Sheila Heti's Motherhood’ CLAUDIA DURASTANTI

EAN 9780008656072
ISBN 000865607X
Binding Hardback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date August 29, 2024
Pages 256
Language English
Dimensions 222 x 141 x 28
Country United Kingdom
Authors Gomez Urzaiz, Begona