Three things with Jane Caro: ‘It’s not the 80s and it never will be again’

In our weekly interview about objects, the writer and commentator tells us about the bag she can’t live without, and the earrings she amassed in the 80s

For her latest novel, Jane Caro spent 18 months researching coercive control and domestic abuse. To understand its complex machinations, she spoke to survivors, judges, police, lawyers, ex-prisoners and those working in the sector.

The longtime writer and social commentator poured everything she learned into The Mother, a domestic thriller about a woman who becomes concerned when her daughter withdraws in a new marriage. The plot of the book arose from Caro’s anger at how little is being done to protect women in Australia, but it is also about how far a mother will go to protect her children.

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