Reviews

Things My Mother Never Told Me by Blake Morrison

zoefruitcake's review against another edition

4.0

Having enjoyed his book about his father about 10 years ago I expected to be sucked right into this from the start. However I found this one harder to appreciate, although once I got over a third through I found it went quite quickly to the end. I was left with the feeling (as I had been at the end of 'When did you last see your father' that I wouldn't have liked his father much, and I'm not sure about his mother.

schopflin's review

5.0

I liked this a lot. Honest, beautifully-written and full of historical insight. I also found it deeply depressing in what it said about women's lives in the 20th century, even to the expectations of the men they brought up. Absolutely fascinating detail on the lives of medics and the treatment they gave pre-NHS, pre- abortion legalisation and pre-antibiotics