Our closest relationships can feel all consuming sometimes. particularly our children, but also our partners, or close friends, or parents.

It can be hard to imagine ourselves apart from them; to define ourselves, outside of those relationships.

And even when a relationship ends those connections still resonate, we are shaped by the people in our lives, as we shape their lives in turn.

In her new memoir Splinters, Leslie Jamison is sharing her story: of being a mother, a wife, a teacher, an artist, and of being herself.