Mother Ship: Francesca Segal and Olivia Laing

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The ‘mother ship’ of Francesca Segal’s memoir is the neonatal intensive care unit where she was confined for fifty-six days after the premature birth of her twin girls. <A HREF="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/on-our-shelves/book/9781784742690/mother-ship" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mother Ship </A>(Chatto and Windus) is at once a celebration of female friendship, a medical thriller and a love poem to Segal’s daughters, from the acclaimed author of <A HREF="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/on-our-shelves/book/9780099569527/innocents" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Innocents</A> and <A HREF="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/on-our-shelves/book/9780099569534/awkward-age" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Awkward Age</A>.
 
Segal will be in conversation with Olivia Laing, whose first novel, <A HREF="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/on-our-shelves/book/9781509892846/crudo" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Crudo</A>, was published last year.

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