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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.
Contents
Prelude - 'The Powers of Love Reversed'
Toxins
Chapter 1 - Invalid
Chapter 2 - Mistaken Identities
Chapter 3 - Damnation
Chapter 4 - Witnesses
Chapter 5 - Top
Antidotes
Chapter 6 - Two Kinds of Elsewhere
Chapter 7 - Crisis
Chapter 8 - Remissions
Acknowledgements
References
