We need to address society’s unrealistic view of caregivers
Measured against the figure of the strong carer, I felt I came up shamefully short – I was vulnerable, too
by Joanne Limburg
Joanne Limburg is a poet, essayist and novelist. She teaches creative writing at Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing Education, and her books include the poetry collections Femenismo (2000) and The Autistic Alice (2017), the novel A Want of Kindness (2015) and the memoirs The Woman Who Thought Too Much (2010), Small Pieces (2017) and Letters To My Weird Sisters (2021). She lives in Cambridge, UK.
Written by Joanne Limburg