She’s also good on the changes time wreaks in childhood, both on the child, who alters from one month to the next, and on the parent. Liardet describes beautifully the almost animal quality of that feeling, called up by the smell of a child’s neck, the curve of a chubby arm, even an outgrown dress. This is a book suffused with parental affection: fierce, physical and almost inexpressibly tender. as well as being a deft social history, it is a love story. The writing is often dazzling.and this.lifts what might have been a sentimental story into different territory altogether.
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