I attended the London Book Fair today and got to hear bestselling Korean author, Kyung-Sook Shin talk about writing her heartbreaking novel, ‘Please look after mother’. A novel about mothers, generational gaps, family and loss. It’s worth a read, but it is really sad.

She said she wanted to write a beautiful novel for her mother, but she thinks what she has written is something sad. I think it gives a voice to the self-sacrificing mother, and reminds us to cherish our mums.