Interview with
Danielle Wood

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  • Published 20131203
  • ISBN: 9781922079992
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

Danielle Wood is the author of a novel, The Alphabet of Light and Dark, a collection of short fiction, and the biography of Marjorie Bligh. She also writes fiction for children with Heather Rose under the name ‘Angelica Banks’. In this interview she speaks with Madeleine Watts about her story ‘The good mother‘ in Griffith REVIEW 42, a direct challenge to the myths of contemporary motherhood.


 
To start off with a very general question, why did you decide to write a story exposing what is essentially a myth of motherhood?

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