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Millennials are exploring motherhood – in a new generation of books | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Subtle, intelligent novels by women including Avni Doshi and Sophie Mackintosh look at giving birth in an unstable world
‘We have environmental catastrophe to consider, of a much more imminent nature than our mothers had to face; a much greater degree of financial instability; a global pandemic.’ Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

My mother says that, with feminism, each generation has to reinvent the wheel. I see this as her generous way of saying that, essentially, there are no new struggles, just as they say that there are really only seven kinds of plot in fiction. Finding your feminism can make you temporarily evangelical; it certainly did me, in the aftermath of an assault. The world burned with injustice that I wanted to correct, and though my mother knew these injustices well, just as many women had before her, she gave me the space to draw my own conclusions, to find

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