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23.01.2022 Review of Carol Lefevre Murmurations by Carol Millner: "Beautifully observed, Murmurations uses the skilful accretion of domestic detail to create scenes and moments of hyper-realist intensity, and yet the stories seem also to float in an unspecified semi-urban space. "I was unsettled by this powerful, shifting novella, in which the characters never seem to land but drift, merge and separate on the book’s intimate emotional undertow."... Get your copy of Murmurations now: https://www.spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925950083

12.01.2022 In documenting just some of the many stories of heartbreak around the lived experiences of being birth mothers and egg providers, Broken Bonds shows that human rights violations are inherent in this practice. Surrogacy is not just the means of having children but necessitates harming women and children; children who may never know the woman who gave birth to them. The concept of ethical surrogacy is a myth, a myth that disguises power imbalances between participants. Get your copy of Broken Bonds: Surrogate Mothers Speak Out edited by Jennifer Lahl, Melinda Tankard Reist and Renate Klein: https://www.spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/978192558155 #StopSurrogacyNow

06.01.2022 In Lillian’s Eden, debut novelist Cheryl Adam takes the reader to Australian rural post-war life through the life of a family struggling to survive. With their farm destroyed by fire, Lillian agrees to the demands of her philandering, violent husband to move to the coastal town of Eden to help look after his Aunt Maggie. Juggling the demands of caring for her children and two households, and stoically enduring her husband’s continued indiscretions, Lillian finds an unlikely a...lly and friend in the feisty, eccentric Aunt Maggie who lives next door. With wonderfully drawn characters reminiscent of Ruth Park and Kylie Tennant, Cheryl Adam shows us the stark realities of rural life behind the closed front doors and scented rose-filled gardens. She highlights the endless physical and mental demands on women like Lillian who have to grapple with the challenges of a new homeland as well as never ending family responsibilities. This rich, raw novel pays homage to friendship and to the rural women whose remarkable resilience enabled them to find happiness in sometimes the most unlikely of places. Get your copy of Lillian's Eden by Cheryl Adam now. Also available as an Ebook, on sale for $9.99: https://www.spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925581676

05.01.2022 Down syndrome is currently presented both medically and culturally as a catastrophe and a preventable tragedy. Women are encouraged and urged to test every foetus before proceeding to term, to get the all clear, the green light so to speak. And considerable pressure is placed on them to conform. "It may be that termination is the right path for many women. What concerns me though that it is quickly becoming the only acceptable path. -Fiona Place, Portrait of the Artist's Mother. Out now: https://www.spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925581751

02.01.2022 Get your copy of Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Life by Sheila Jeffreys: https://www.spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925950205