Harriet Clark
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460 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Aug
Harriet Clark’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My experience is not that she's less of a mother.
I think she's an incredible mother.
I think she figured out how to mother me in some of the most difficult conditions possible.
And so I think because I've never felt like I had a second-class mothering experience, it doesn't feel to me like, why did she even bother having a child if it was going to be under these conditions?
I knew she loved me and wanted me, and I knew it was the great tragedy of her life not to be able to be around me all the time.
I mean, it is one of the greatest pieces of good fortune in my life that my mother's prison had that room.
Because I was able to want to see my mother because the environment in which I saw her could be playful.
So there's a large visiting room that has dozens of tables.
And then in the back of that room, separated by this kind of large bed,
plastic wall is a carpeted room that has lots of toys and games and just places you can sit on the floor so that you don't have to be at these kind of stern separating tables.
And
It is run by women within the prison.
In the book, it's run by nuns, but that's not accurate to the actual children's center.
It was run by women inside.
And so you can play with your mother.
Your mother can touch you.
Your mother can read to you.
You can as much as possible still be a kid with your mother.
They try as much as possible to keep the officers out of that room so you're not having a sense of constant surveillance.
But eventually, the last 20, 25 years were spent in the other room where you just have to sit at the table and talk to each other, which luckily my mother and I are incredibly good at.
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