“All my friends' mothers were appalling women.”
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There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, ' reducing it to a simple formula.
You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
