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Motherhood is full of agony, but its songs are deemed “nice”

The New Statesman
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Laura Marling's new album, Temperamental , made me cry the other day .

It was this line that got me “ Last night in your sleep you started crying/I can’t protect you there though I keep trying” The emotion conveyed was one I understood well, but one I had shied away from writing about when I became a mother.

The year our twin daughters were born, there is no mention of babies at all.

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