In conversation Cynthia Banham and Jane Messer

Mother Shadow by Cynthia Banham and Raven Mother by Jane Messer are two memoirs interweaving memory and history, exploring the nature of the authors maternal relationships and child abandonment.

Mother Shadow deals with the subject of maternal inheritance, parenting with disability, and the standards we set for ourselves as mothers. Raven Mother retraces the tragic and hopeful steps of Jane’s Jewish German grandmother, uncovering maternal abandonment, and links to past, and current, global events.

Cynthia is a writer, journalist and lawyer who has written multiple fiction and non-fiction books, and Jane is an accomplished author, former Associate Professor of Creative Writing, and founder and director of StorySALOON, a podcast dedicated to Australian short stories.

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Lane Cove Library, Library Place, Lane Cove, Australia

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