The Curator (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780646813608)

"For so long I lived in the noise of my children, my true passion, my career, my calling, that sometimes when it's quiet, when they're out of the house, when I have several hours to myself, I realise suddenly that I am still here. In the absence of my children, the silence is deafening. Lulled by the endless school runs and the cycle of the years when change comes slowly, I am shocked to find myself suddenly speeding down the track of 'lasts'..."

The Curator is a memoir of motherhood that follows the journey of a teenage mother through to middle age, the ties of family and the mothers that raise us.