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The duty of care

 book, though not always in ways that the author intends. Part memoir, part manifesto, it is the story of a politically active, young woman writer, whose life was hijacked for three years to look after her mother who ended up dying of cancer. Kenway had help, of course, from the NHS, and some paid carers, and she managed to work and even write a book through most of the period. But it left her broken

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