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Hello, international prize winners and gongs galore on the programme today,

along with haunting memoirs of mothers from Australia and the UK.

The best writers under 35, the Philippines first crime writer with her literary postcard

and a Russian prize-winning novel to rival the name of the rose.

Christopher began teaching the boy about herbal treatments at the age of four.

They searched for the pheasant's eye plant near ravines.

Christopher showed Arseni its sharp little leaves. Feasants eye plant near ravines. Christopher showed Arsini its sharp little leaves.

Feasant's eye helped with hernia and fever. From Laurus by Eugene Vodalaskin. We'll hear more from him later.

But we start with mothers and the desire of two writers to carve a unique space for them through

memories and accounts.

The writer and journalist Jeremy Gavron last saw his mother aged four

when she dropped him off to his nursery Christmas party

before proceeding to a friend's flat where she committed suicide.

It was 1965 and a few months later the captive wife, Hannah's seminal sociological study into

young mothers, was published posthumously. Jeremy's memoir of his mother, a woman on the

edge of time, is an investigative journey into the identity of a young woman who wanted more

from life than her era allowed her, and for the reader, an introduction to a person who by the memoir's clothes feels like a friend.

The prize-winning Australian novelist Kate Grenville, on the other hand,

enjoyed a close relationship with her mother, Nance, during her long life,

and her memoir, One Life, charts a pioneering, resilient character at a time when

options for women were much restricted. Both authors joined me earlier and I began our discussion

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