A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son Investigates His Trailblazing Mother's Young Suicide

A son's search for his mother, a feminist pioneer-and a casualty of her time

In London, 1965, a brilliant young woman-a prescient advocate for women's rights-has just gassed herself to death, leaving behind a suicide note, two young sons, and a soon-to-be-published book: The Captive Wife. No one had ever imagined that Hannah Gavron might take her own life. Beautiful, sophisticated, and swept up in the progressive sixties, she was a promising academic and the wife of a rising entrepreneur. Bu...