Naima Brown’s ‘Mother Tongue’ is not the book I expected. After stumbling on the recommendation from a BookTok creator, I couldn’t wait to dive into the story of the American stay-at-home mum, Brynn, who felt stuck in the wrong life until she suffered a brain injury and woke from a coma speaking fluent French. She saw a way out and took it, leaving behind her husband, Eric, and young daughter, Jenny, to build a new life. ‘Charlemagne said to speak a second language is to p

I wanted a lot of things from my body before the injury. I was an active person: a social netball player, a (semi) regular gym-goer, and enjoyed walking my dog everyday – but like so many of us, I wanted more. I didn’t hate my body, but I would have liked it to be fitter, stronger and faster – until a random Tuesday evening when I went to a game of social netball and didn’t return home for 5 nights. It was not a good game. My team was not well matched with our opponent, we

If you have been anywhere on the internet in the last few weeks, this may be the 500th article you have seen on the demise of The Secret of Mormon Wives (SLOMW). Only 2 years since its premiere, the main star, Taylor Frankie Paul, has landed in such dark controversy that the show is likely in jeopardy. Though the circumstances are more serious than anyone could have foreseen (so much so that I will not be getting into them here), the audience has known since the pilot that th