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from the bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

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STEPMOTHER - Helen Mort blhhgf from the bestselling author ofEuripides said "better a serpent than a stepmother." For a moment, you like the idea of being a single line, winding around everything you touch. A vine.''Brave, graceful and absolutely vital Mort shoulders away the old trope of the stepmother and replaces her with a host of humane women' SARAH HALL, author of HelmWhen a new relationship casts poet Helen Mort in the role of stepmother, she embarks on a personal quest for understanding; moving across