;Raine, Sarah (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance),Blackman, Shane (Canterbury Christ Church University),McPherson, Robert (Canterbury Christ Church University),Taylor, Iain A. (Birmingham City Un
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Alice is a motherless child, born to a motherless child, and raised with neither care nor grace. Her response to this multiple abandonment is a lifelong obsession with her best friend Ingrid, or Thing
The eleven stories and one novella of Mother Box, and Other Tales bring together everyday reality and something that is dramatically not in compelling narratives of new possibilities.
