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Anger, grief, boredom, frustration, resentment. Mira, an experienced therapist, has seen and heard it all before; nothing can shock or faze her and, although she works from home, the line between the personal and the professional is, for her, a boundary not to be crossed. Occasionally, the thin walls allow her husband’s cough or a clatter of shoes to penetrate – or perhaps a client touches a nerve – but Mira is practised at politely sidestepping any attempts to draw her in (or out). Once the last client closes the door behind them, however, Mira too has her share of concerns and dilemmas demanding acknowledgement, attention and (re)solution. But as she navigates the central relationships in her life – with her husband, and the son he didn’t know about for years, with her war-ravaged homeland, and the sister who lives there still, with her various clients – she finds it’s not always easy to keep home and work separate.
Written in tight, precise prose, The Delivery Room is Mira’s story – the story of the people and places in her life and the delicate, precarious balance between them.
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'In this ambitious and impressive novel, Brownrigg writes affectingly about her struggle to come to terms with loss and grief.' -- Sunday Times
'Sylvia Brownrigg's third novel is a serious work, intelligently written, well constructed and occasionally poetic.' -- Independent
'There is a great thoughtfulness in her writing, that allows it to be both intensely intelligent and highly readable.' -- The Times
'an examination of...misunderstandings experienced between patient and client, as well as...a believable insight into the differing challenges of motherhood' -- Scotland on Sunday
'immensely rewarding' -- Guardian
'intimate and intelligent...delves inside the complexities of the brain to deliver a stunning interpretation of birth, death, war and bereavement.' -- Scotland on Sunday
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'Sylvia Brownrigg's third novel is a serious work, intelligently written, well constructed and occasionally poetic.' -- Independent
'There is a great thoughtfulness in her writing, that allows it to be both intensely intelligent and highly readable.' -- The Times
'an examination of...misunderstandings experienced between patient and client, as well as...a believable insight into the differing challenges of motherhood' -- Scotland on Sunday
'immensely rewarding' -- Guardian
'intimate and intelligent...delves inside the complexities of the brain to deliver a stunning interpretation of birth, death, war and bereavement.' -- Scotland on Sunday
A story about people, about life and death, about relationships, regrets and reconciliations -- and about the therapist's couch
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0330442422
- ISBN 13 9780330442428
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages384
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