Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling
Autor Gwyneth Lewisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 iun 2026
In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing to write all her life, in diaries that she’s kept since childhood. In these journals, she interrogates the emotionally abusive mother/daughter relationship, in great pain but with determination to find a way through.
The result is a book that Gwyneth co-writes with her younger self, an unexpected and life-saving dialogue through time. Metaphors of haunting intensity help her confront what happened to her; quotations from art and literature help to guide and steady her. Nightshade Mother is a book about the power of art and language and, ultimately, about homecoming after a lifetime of exile from herself. It is a profoundly moving and beautiful work; questing, forgiving, and loving in its approach.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781915279910
ISBN-10: 1915279917
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Wales Press
Colecția Calon
ISBN-10: 1915279917
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Wales Press
Colecția Calon
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Notă biografică
Gwyneth Lewis was appointed Wales’s first National Poet in 2005 and composed the six-foot-high inscription on the front of the Wales Millennium Centre. Her books include Chaotic Angels, Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression,and Two in a Boat: A Marital Voyage.
Cuprins
Prelude - ’The Powers of Love Reversed’
Toxins
Chapter 1 - Invalid
Chapter 2 - Mistaken Identities
Chapter 3 - Damnation
Chapter 4 - Witnesses
Chapter 5 - Top
Antidotes
Chapter 6 - Two Kinds of Elsewhere
Chapter 7 - Crisis
Chapter 8 - Remissions
Acknowledgements
References
Toxins
Chapter 1 - Invalid
Chapter 2 - Mistaken Identities
Chapter 3 - Damnation
Chapter 4 - Witnesses
Chapter 5 - Top
Antidotes
Chapter 6 - Two Kinds of Elsewhere
Chapter 7 - Crisis
Chapter 8 - Remissions
Acknowledgements
References
Recenzii
“Lewis's persistence in naming, taming and understanding her mother's worst features makes Nightshade Mother an original and valuable exploration of a tragically mismatched mother and daughter.”
“This compelling memoir, daring to voice its own truth, proves it can be done.”
“This is an astonishing memoir. It is remarkable, the combination of unrelenting clarity and straightforwardness, and the subtlety of all the insidious and insistent terror (and rage) described. The book seems to me a triumph of tone and poise amidst so much disarray and confusion. It floats free of the by now all too familiar Sanity, Madness and the Family accounts of devastated childhoods. It’s utterly free of sentimentality and special pleading – and shows us something partly explained by plain and lucid and understatedly poetic description. It seems to me extraordinary that Gwyneth Lewis is more than able to write this unique version of the growth of the poet’s mind. We are all failures because we fail to cure our parents; this book shows the terrible impossibility of the founding task of everyone’s life.”
“What sort of parenting can make an adult, decades on, feel like ‘a trespasser in their own life’? In this unsparing memoir of a passionately controlling mother, who needs to keep a gifted child in her place, Gwyneth Lewis explores the nature of the damage done, the discovery of patchy but real vehicles of healing, the challenges of where and how to offer - or to postpone - forgiveness. All this is done with authority and (in the best sense) dispassion — not chill, not absent feeling, but clarity in and about feeling. It is a moving, difficult, and, ultimately, loving record, insisting on growing beyond both collusion and resentment.”
“...pure pleasure to read a book that crackles with intelligence, sparks of wit and insight.”
“This compelling memoir, daring to voice its own truth, proves it can be done.”
“This is an astonishing memoir. It is remarkable, the combination of unrelenting clarity and straightforwardness, and the subtlety of all the insidious and insistent terror (and rage) described. The book seems to me a triumph of tone and poise amidst so much disarray and confusion. It floats free of the by now all too familiar Sanity, Madness and the Family accounts of devastated childhoods. It’s utterly free of sentimentality and special pleading – and shows us something partly explained by plain and lucid and understatedly poetic description. It seems to me extraordinary that Gwyneth Lewis is more than able to write this unique version of the growth of the poet’s mind. We are all failures because we fail to cure our parents; this book shows the terrible impossibility of the founding task of everyone’s life.”
“What sort of parenting can make an adult, decades on, feel like ‘a trespasser in their own life’? In this unsparing memoir of a passionately controlling mother, who needs to keep a gifted child in her place, Gwyneth Lewis explores the nature of the damage done, the discovery of patchy but real vehicles of healing, the challenges of where and how to offer - or to postpone - forgiveness. All this is done with authority and (in the best sense) dispassion — not chill, not absent feeling, but clarity in and about feeling. It is a moving, difficult, and, ultimately, loving record, insisting on growing beyond both collusion and resentment.”
“...pure pleasure to read a book that crackles with intelligence, sparks of wit and insight.”