By Amy Bird
Every parent knows that parenthood is a journey. I hope soon to make that journey; as I write this, I am five months pregnant. The characters in my new novel Hide and Seek also have to make that journey. It is not a roman à clef; I didn’t know when I conceived the idea for the book that I was pregnant. But as I wrote, exploring my characters’ approaches to fatherhood and motherhood, I became conscious that I would (all being well) soon be a mother. I thought about that role – what I would want to be, what I would not want to be, and how to achieve that.
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