Mother’s Milk Books
Baby X, Rebecca Ann Smith
Plaiting together the stories of Dr Alex Mansfield, Dolly, and Karen Frey, Rebecca Ann Smith’s Baby X tracks these women’s relationships with a human foetus as it develops in an artificial uterus. This is a novel about fertility treatment and its implications, about the danger of privatising health services and the ways in which a…
Saboteur Awards Nomination for ‘Echolocation’ and other project and Dragon’s Den style novel pitching
Regular readers will have noticed that there has been a sizable gap in the weekly mothering blogs. I can’t really apologise as the reasons are mostly exciting professional ones but I can promise a piece on the topic of religious mother soon. In the meantime I thought I’d fill you in on some of the…
Rebecca Adlington – Sporty Mother
I’m going to open by saying a thank you to everyone who made it to the launch of Echolocation at a very packed Hyde Park Book Club on Sunday. It couldn’t have been a more special day with brilliant poetry from Michael Brown and open micers, generous compering from Matthew Hedley Stoppard and the support…
Teika Bellamy – Publisher Mother
Thanks to the support of the Leeds Big Bookend festival, my poetry pamphlet Echolocation published by Mother’s Milk Books will be launched at The Hyde Park Book Club on Sunday. I discovered Mother’s Milk after seeing a submission request for adult fairy tales and was delighted when Teika Bellamy (who, with perfect serendipity, had just read and liked my…