‘Learning to Speak American’ explores heartbreaking loss and starting again

It’s any parent’s greatest fear: losing their child. Unfortunately, such a devastating loss can also lead to couples losing each other, and that’s certainly the case with Lola and Duncan Drummond, the married couple at the center of Colette Dartford’s debut novel ‘Learning to Speak American’. What’s it about? Since they lost their young daughter, […]

July 11, 2016 Book Reviews, Fiction Read More →

Toxic Childhood: how the modern world is damaging our children and what we can do about it

It would be easy to dismiss this book as largely fearmongering, given the attention-seeking title. However, it’s much better than that. What’s it about? A few years ago, Sue Palmer, literacy expert, stepped aside from her day-to-day professional activities and began to examine a range of cultural factors that were having a growing impact on […]

January 26, 2014 Book Reviews, Non-fiction, Parenting Read More →