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“A Woman of the Sword is my most personal book; the central character Lidae is based on me, her children are based on my children, and the things she says about motherhood are based on my more negative and ambiguous feelings about motherhood. Lidae is a mother and also a warrior, and the back of the book says ‘War is not kind to mothers or their sons’…” Read more...
Anna Smith Spark, Novelist