Author Talk: Hiding Places by Lynley Edmeades

Come and celebrate Lynley Edmeade's Hiding Places, a compelling and beautifully written meditation on early motherhood and creativity. This remarkable book responds to the unexpected shocks and discoveries of becoming a mother, drawing on excerpts from family letters and secretive medical records, and advice contained in Truby King’s 1913 tract, Feeding and Care of Baby.

Partly a slowly unfurling unsent love letter to an admired writer, partly a ‘book of essays that is a notebook about trying to write a book of essays’, and partly an attempt to simply hang on through tumultuous times, Hiding Places deftly blends personal reflection with family history, social critique and literary analysis.

Lynley will be in dialogue with author and Spinoff books editor Claire Mabey.