A Little Give

The final part of Marina Benjamin’s powerful, political, and personal midlife trilogy, following on from The Middlepause and Insomnia.


In Marina Benjamin’s new memoir-in-essays, she turns her astute eye to the tasks once termed ‘women’s work’. From cooking and cleaning to caring for an ageing relative, A Little Give depicts domestic life anew: as a site of paradox and conflict, but also of solace and profound meaning. Here, productivity sits alongside self-erasure, resentment with tenderness, and the animal self is never far away, perpetually threatening to break through.