Keridwyn Dovey

And now that I'm actually the same age that mum was when she was in that deepest engagement with his work with two young children, I feel I have a model for how one might be able to be a mother and a writer or a thinker at the same time.

And I say in the book that the one doesn't have to cancel out the other.

And in fact, in many of Coetzee's female characters, they're the most cerebral thinking female characters that one might ever encounter on the page.

And it occurred to me rereading the books and thinking about my mum's intellectual heritage that it's not often that we see an intellectual heritage pass between a mother and a daughter.

in the books that we read.

I certainly couldn't think, you know, nothing came to mind easily when I thought about where else have I seen this kind of, not just an emotional legacy, but something else, you know, someone being initiated into the life of the mind through their mother's engagement with ideas.

Crime?

Do you like crime?