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‘Babies shouldn’t eat vegetables’ and other myths author Alice Pung had to battle
Alice Pung had finished her novel One Hundred Days – about a pregnant teen whose overprotective mother locks her in their housing commission flat – when her life started to follow suit.
Alice Pung was almost 40, not 16, and pregnant with her third child, not her first, when she moved in with her parents in Melbourne during lockdown last year, accompanied by her husband Nick and their two boys, aged six and two. But as with her new novel’s adolescent narrator, Karuna, Alice found herself at times stifled by her mother’s “practical kind of love”.
