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Friday essay: 1 in 25 Australians have been estranged from their families. True stories about this can make people feel less alone

Have you stopped speaking to one or more of your parents, or a sibling? If so, you’re not alone. Family estrangement is common, and has affected around one in 25 Australians.

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in November

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

We need stories from older mothers – and from women who don’t want children too

Letters: Monica Cardenas advocates a move away from a culture that tends to see all women of child-bearing age as potential parents, and Claire Flood-Page and another reader write about the experiences of those who have been mothers for longer

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Writing honestly about motherhood still provokes anger, but we must tell our stories

The problems and worries are perennial, but each generation experiences them differently, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

White on White by Ayşegül Savaş review – storytelling at a chilly remove

A nameless student listens to her landlady’s embittered life story in a spare, oddly enthralling novel indebted to Rachel Cusk’s Outline

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