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ISBN: 9781615193974
Published: October 3, 2017
Price: $14.95 US / $22.95 CAN
Paperback: 272 pages
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A Woman on the Edge of Time
A Son's Search for a Mother Who Wanted More
by Jeremy Gavron
 

“Jeremy Gavron’s quest to find his mother has produced a groundbreaking book and moving portrait of a spirited young woman—a ‘captive wife’—who refused to accept the social constraints of her time. Unforgettable.”—Tina Brown

London, 1965: A brilliant young woman has just gassed herself to death, leaving behind a note, two young sons, and a soon-to-be-published book. A promising academic and feminist at the dawn of modern feminism, no one had imagined Hannah Gavron might take her own life. Forty years later, her son Jeremy attempts to solve both this mystery of his mother’s death and the mystery of the mother he never had the chance to know. From the fragments of life she left behind, he ultimately uncovers not only Hannah’s struggle to carve out her place in a man’s world; he examines the constrictions on every ambitious woman in the mid-20th century.

“Beautifully written—wholly unique.”—Joyce Carol Oates

“A thoughtful meditation on a ruthless, mysterious final act.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Poignantly touches the enigmatic interior life of a mother ‘forever out of reach.’”—Publishers Weekly

“Pioneering, intense . . . a revelation of life.”—Ali Smith

Jeremy Gavron is the author of The Book of Israel, winner of the Encore Award, and An Acre of Barren Ground. A former foreign correspondent in Africa and Asia, he lives in London, and teaches in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.