Imperfect Bodies Format:PaperbackWhen Ali learns that she is expecting a child with CFC syndrome, a rare genetic condition that affects the heart, face, skin, and development, her world is shaken up. Doctors tell her that her baby will not even survive pregnancy but, against all odds, Carys is born. In this powerful literary memoir, Ali shares her journey as the mother of Carys, reflecting on motherhood, identity, the female body, and the able and dis abled body, while exploring
they reflect on the role of art in a time of political and cultural division
Welding themes from art and history with the contemporary
and his days sleeping off hangovers in the stock room of the floundering record shop where he works
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The story begins with a fire – an image which permeates the novel
and a sequence of computer-generated translations of classic literature
the memories of growing up
"This newly published collection is a joy… and you don't have to be a 'literary' person to appreciate it
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braids the experience of a daughter recovering from emergency surgery following a severe accident
It's also a day-to-day diary of the earliest months of the pandemic which holds up a mirror to the trauma inflicted by lockdown on the national psyche while the Prime Minister and his government partied in Downing Street in flagrant breach of their own draconian rules
