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Intervals by Marianne Brooker review – a daughter’s angry and profound memorial to her mother

The Guardian

Frequently repeated words may gain a carapace that resists our scrutiny: take “dignity”, for example, which Marianne Brooker regards with “mild suspicion” as “too clean-cut and classed”, with “none of the chaos that makes us human”. Sick and poor,” writes Brooker, “she made a workshop of herself.” Continue reading.