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Lead book review

Two big books on motherhood and childlessness: Catherine Mayer got emotional

9 March 2019

9:00 AM

9 March 2019

9:00 AM

A single survey, elevated by news organisations to scientific certainty, suggests that air travellers may be more susceptible to tears than their earthbound selves. I remembered this on a recent long-haul flight, when I wept not at a weepy, but over Sarah Knott’s Mother: An Unconventional History. The last book of similar intellectual heft to make me cry toppled from a bookshelf on to my foot.

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