I couldn’t love you more, Esther Freud

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Just finished this-read it one day! I absolutely loved it. Anyone else read it?

Yes, it was incredibly touching and the double meaning in the title superb.

Ooh what meaning did you take from it? Obviously he meant he could not have felt more love for her. Do you mean he couldn’t because he was married?

I took it to mean the women couldn’t love their children more, because they were prevented from doing so by the society they were trapped in.
So on the face of it it’s a fairly trite old fashioned saying, but the actual truth for those women.
I detested that artist!

Oooh I hadn’t thought of that. Yes, I agree. Beautiful how artistic their daughter was, though. And actually the focus on her sculpture of the tree and Felix’s on the stone figure and pregnant figure. I so enjoyed the book.

There are very few depictions of childbirth in literature that affected me as much as the ones in the Mother And Baby Home - a real visceral sadness.
I’ve been reading Esther Freud since Hideous Kinky in 92 and feel I’ve grown up alongside her characters.