{"product_id":"9780008656072","title":"The Abandoners : Of Mothers and Monsters","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Gomez Urzaiz, Begona \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 29\/08\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 256 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008656072,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The best kind of book: the one you didn’t know you were craving until it appeared . . . self-interrogative, intricately perceptive. I absolutely inhaled it’ JIA TOLENTINO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘A very richly interesting exploration of a complex subject. Begoña Gómez Urzaiz tells the stories with such intelligence and wit and generosity’ TESSA HADLEY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  When it comes to children: a man leaves, a woman abandons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIngrid Bergman, Muriel Spark, Maria Montessori, Joni Mitchell … what do these vastly different women have in common?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e During the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist Begoña Gómez Urzaiz became fixated on artistic women who were able to overcome both society’s judgement and their own maternal instincts in order to leave their children. More than anything, she was fascinated by her own prejudice towards these women, so clearly tied up in a much wider cultural bias.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Using famous examples including Doris Lessing, fictional ones such as Anna Karenina, and interrogating modern trends like Momfluencers, Begoña reveals what our judgement of these women tells us about our judgement of all women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘The best book I've read on the implications of motherhood and its opposites after Sheila Heti's Motherhood’ CLAUDIA DURASTANTI\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43491627728940,"sku":"9780008656072","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008656072.jpg?v=1718103024","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008656072","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}