Motherland

‘This is the kind of book I wish I had access to as a young mum’ – Nadiya Hussain‘A brilliant book not just on parenthood but on what makes us the people we are […] everyone has something to gain by reading it’ – Poorna Bell‘Priya has written a thought-provoking memoir of being raised between cultures, and how this has impacted her parenting of her daughter’ – Devi Sridhar, author of Preventable‘We can all learn something from this brilliant must-read book’ – Julia Samuel, leading British psychotherapist and bestselling author

Priya Joi is a well-respected science journalist with a career spanning 20 years and has worked for organisations including the World Health Organisation, The Lancet and New Scientist. She reported on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic and has reported from the field on malaria, HIV, and TB. She has freelanced for The Guardian, BBC and Médecins Sans Frontières, and has chaired and spoken at science conferences. Joi has worked to shine a light on issues of race, sexism and discrimination her entire career. M(other)land is her first book.

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