A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son's Search for a Mother Who Wanted More

The memoir of a journalist investigating the mystery of his sociologist mother's suicide forty years later.
London, 1965: A brilliant young woman has just gassed herself to death, leaving behind a note, two young sons, and a soon-to-be-published book. A promising academic and feminist at the dawn of modern feminism, no one had imagined Hannah Gavron might take her own life. Forty years later, her son Jeremy attempts to solve both this mystery of his mother's death and the mystery of the moth...