Raising a child is often cited as the most important job a person can do, yet fiction that centres on parenthood, particularly motherhood, is often denigrated as ‘domestic’ or ‘small’. In this panel, Celeste Ng*, Jessamine Chan (The School for Good Mothers) and Peter Ho Davies (A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself) discuss how so-called domestic fiction might also be considered as novels of ideas. How does work centring on parenthood grapple with larger social and cultural issues and why are such works not afforded the appropriate weight and critical consideration? What might it mean to shift our view of what these novels might have to teach us? Chaired by Clare Clark.

*This person will appear digitally.

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