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Mothers Don't

by Katixa Agirre - £14.99  3TimesRebel Press (2022)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781739823603 | ISBN 10: 1739823605

‘I was those hands. The hands that drowned the babies. The mother’s hands. The hands that had no mercy.’
 
‘A lover while pregnant, I broke a big taboo there, didn’t I? Maybe the biggest taboo.’
 
A mother kills her twins. Another woman, the narrator, is about to give birth. She is a writer and realises that she knows the woman who killed the children. An obsession is triggered. She takes a leave of absence, not to nurture her baby, but to write. To investigate the hidden truth behind the crime.
 
This book is halfway between a thriller and a journalistic chronicle. A novel about the primal guilt that comes with being a mother.
 
Katixa Agirre also reflects on the relationship between motherhood and creativity, in dialogue with other female writers such as Sylvia Plath and Doris Lessing.
 
The result is an unprecedented and profoundly disturbing book, in which no real answers are offered but more contradictions emerge.

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