Books
Book review: Pychotherapist Stella O’Malley is clear sighted ally for parents at teenage ground zero
What Your Teen is Trying to Tell You offers common sense strategies on how to recognise trouble, when to intervene and how to support your teenager in working the answers out for themselves
In her recently published memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith writes of the fear and bewilderment she experienced when her daughter was born. She and her husband were busy, happy in their fledgling, postgraduate college careers, and the disruption overwhelmed her. “What had I done,” she asks, “insisting on more of us?”
Whether through support, treatment or natural change, that early anguish fades for the vast majority of women. But it ...
