Dead from childbirth… Mum is gone, the preemie baby is here, except that Mum’s ghost pops by occasionally, and The Rat isn’t going anywhere… Highschooler Clare’s never met her birth father, calls her stepfather Dad, and cannot imagine why he and Mum would purposefully have another baby! Find this intense study of embarrassment turned to … Continue reading Year of the Rat, by Clare Furniss (book review) – Mum dead, baby here…