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When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that as the only woman at her new workplace—a manufacturer of cardboard tubes—she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can’t clear away her coworkers’ dirty cups—because she’s pregnant and the smell nauseates her. Except Ms. Shibata is not pregnant. But she has a nine-month ruse to keep up. Before long, it becomes all-absorbing, and with every stage of her “pregnancy,” the boundary between her lie and her life begins to dissolve.

Depression is like swimming through black tar. It’s like waking up one morning and feeling a heavy weight on your chest whilst trying to hide that same weight and act like a person who feels as light as a feather. In this audiobook from Lucy Davids, we explore the causes and effects of depression. Diving deep into how it feels to live with depression and how to recover. Whether you are experiencing depression yourself, or have a loved one who needs help; this audiobook will be your guide to understanding and supporting yourself and others through depression.

18 biographical dramas based on the lives and loves of celebrated writers.

It’s 1966 in Suriname, on the Caribbean coast of South America, and the long shadow of colonialism still hangs over the country. Grandma Bee is the proud, cigar-smoking matriarch of the Vanta family, which is an intricate mix of Creole, Maroon, French, Indian, Indigenous, British, and Jewish backgrounds. But Grandma Bee is dying, a cough has settled deep in her lungs. The approaching end has her thinking about the members of her family she’s lost, especially one of her favorite granddaughters, Heli, who has been sent away to the Netherlands because of an affair with her white teacher.

Lucy and David exchange unheard music in an effort to clear their personal mist around music artists and genres. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.