Where did you get those big eyes?
My mother.
And where did you get those lips?
My mother.
And the loneliness?
My mother.
And that broken heart?
My mother.
And the absence, where did you get that?
My father.
– Warsan Shire
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- Betrayal Throughout history, treachery and betrayal have been considered amongst the very worst offences. This fascinating study examines the impact of betrayal, revenge and the nature of forgievness
- Hope What is hope? In his autobiography, Miracles of Life, the writer J.G. Ballard offers an arresting case in point
- Letters Letters from the novelist Iris Murdoch to her mentor, the French surrealist Raymond Queneau
- Music and Memory To celebrate the launch of Granta 111: Going Back the magazine asked contributors for playlists of songs on the theme of memory
- Regret Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word; an elegy to lost possibilities
