A Woman on the Edge of Time by Jeremy Gavron review – a son’s search for his mother

The manner of Hannah Gavron’s death was kept from her young son. Four decades later, he set out to uncover the truth

Hannah Gavron was 29 and, on the face of it, had it all: two children, a successful husband, close friends, supportive parents, an affluent lifestyle, a book due to be published within a few weeks and a successful career, with recent radio and television appearances. Someone with everything to live for, you’d think. And yet, on a cold Tuesday afternoon in December 1965, she dropped the younger of her sons, Jeremy, at his nursery school and drove to a friend’s flat in Primrose Hill in central London. Once inside, she sealed the kitchen door and, after writing a note and nerving herself with vodka, turned on the gas oven.

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