<p>"She'd been waiting for the catastrophe to end catastrophes all her life and now it was here she seemed not to give a fig about it".
Howard Jacobson reflects on his mother's life - and death.
Producer: Adele Armstrong</p>
Aug 2023
The Sunday Read: ‘The Vanishing Family: Life in the Shadow of a Cruel Genetic Mutation’
<p>When Barb’s father all but left, her mother turned inward, sitting quietly in front of the television, always smoking, often with a cocktail. Something had overtaken her, though it wasn’t clear what.</p><p>Six years later, Barb was 20 and in college when someone else in the fa ... Show More
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