Babies being swapped at birth is a persistent urban legend, and like the best horror stories it has roots in fact. There’s the Austrian woman who discovered, at 22 years old, that her mother and father were not her biological parents. Fox examines the dark side of motherhood – mental illness, failure, violent thoughts – and refuses to look away. “I was holding a baby in my arms and showing the baby to a group of faceless people. People come to confess.’ Photograph: David White/Penguin Random HouseMine also explores the taboo of the bad mother.

Source: The Guardian April 01, 2018 18:56 UTC