The Baby on the Fire Escape by Julie Phillips fiction Each author and their piece

Each author and their piece of writing is introduced by editor Mark Mackenzie

Both a celebration and autopsy of a relationship

Tuppy Glossop

it recalls the kind of capacious

The Baby on the Fire Escape by Julie Phillips fiction Each author and their pieceWhat does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, who had to choose between her motherhood and