The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison GopnikSelected as a Book of the Year by the Financial Times The Gardener and the Carpenter should be required reading for anyone who is, or is thinking of becoming a parent Financial Times Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call parenting is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the huge industry surrounding it have transformed childcare into obsessive,

there’s not a dull page in sight

attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape

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Drawing on the latest groundbreaking research and scientific findings in the fields of psychology

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When France is overrun

Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered

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The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together by a writer The Washington Post calls “the novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction

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