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Christine Hopkins
"You learn nothing by hurting others; you only learn by being hurt. Where I had been viable, ignorant, rash and loving I was now an accomplished bitch, creating an emptiness in which my own emptiness might survive."

3.5 stars

If you enjoyed Elena Ferrante's The Days of Abandonment, you will probably like this story of a wife and mother of too many children to count slowly losing her identity and self worth.
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Melissa
Sep 04, 2012 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: brit-lit, gloomy
Angela
Dec 18, 2014 marked it as to-read
Viènna
Nov 02, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: female-authors
Laura Spaulding
Aug 12, 2024 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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