Gulp swallow

<h2><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Memoiric essays on who we were and how we have changed</span></h2><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>What happens when who you are is different to who you imagined you'd be?</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>When her son was three Brooke Boland was diagnosed with depression. She went back to find where it all started - the panic attacks the dissociation - in the early days of motherhood. When she found it difficult to read or write.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In this wide-ranging collection of essays Boland moves on from the person she was and writes to understand who she is now. She swims with sharks falls in love with a rabbit and watches her father fight for his life. She is a newcomer in a small regional town and a mother but what else? She writes about family and friends life and mortality memory and forgetting and along the way she finds her voice again.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This book is for anyone who has felt unmoored. It is about the unremarkable in-between the way we try to build a home from nothing the dirty dishes and the loads of washing. The uncertainty and the love. But written in sparkling prose with a sly and wry tone that is illuminating about the everyday as it pitches for a rich and fulfilled life.</span></p><p><br></p>