by matildamcdermo | Mar 31, 2023 | No Season But The Summer, On Writing
Bookplate by Tenar McDermott In a few days’ time my novel, No Season But The Summer, is coming out. It’s a contemporary re-imagining of the Persephone myth within the context of the climate crisis. It’s also a love letter to my mother, and to motherhood. It only took...
by matildamcdermo | Mar 29, 2023 | Art and Care, No Season But The Summer, On Writing
“What is it actually about?” Nicky asked me. We were in her study. The room of a real writer, I thought. She looked stern, even fierce. I like it in stories when the one to come to the rescue is not only kind but also fierce – all those angels that blind people...
by matildamcdermo | Mar 28, 2023 | In the World, No Season But The Summer, On Writing
Having written one novel – No Season But The Summer, a radical revisioning of the Persephone myth – and discovered how hard it is, I am astonished and humbled by how many novels there are in the world – by how many others have undertaken and...
by matildamcdermo | Nov 25, 2022 | In the World
Mural on our living room wall by Tenar McDermott Transitions. One of those things that are meant to be famously hard for kids, especially for neurodiverse and/ or highly anxious ones, like mine happen to be. And there are so damn many of them. The day – just an...
by matildamcdermo | Oct 3, 2022 | As a Woman, Mothers who Make
Image by Zoe Gardner @limberdoodle It’s taken me a long time to admit this, but- here goes: I have a childcare problem. It’s like this: I am the primary carer for my two children. They are 6 and 10. My husband is away, working flat out between now and December....
