Celia Dodd
Journalist and author of books on Retirement and the Empty Nest
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My first book, Conversations with Mothers and Daughters, was
published by Macdonald Optima in 1990, two years before my own daughter was born. The
portrait of me with my mum in this Observer article was taken by the wonderful photographer Jane Bown, who died in 2014.
Observer, February 1990
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