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This is one powerful read. I found it riveting, at times confronting, moving and passionate. It’s a very brave book.

— Dame Fiona Kidman

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Caroline’s emotional intelligence lights up all those deep dark wells of motherhood. I saw myself, and so many mothers, in these words: the heartbursting glorious hardness of it all.

— Catherine Woulfe, Books Editor, The Spinoff

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The language is clear, precise and beautiful. The impact of the author’s searing honesty and her tight control of her material is powerful and compelling. A truly amazing book.

— Hilary Mitchell, New Zealand Heritage Literary Awards Judge

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Caroline Barron is a woman whose prose is up there with this country’s finest female authors, think Frame and Kidman.

— Jill Nicholas for NZME