Book Review: Clair Wills is razor-sharp on mother-and-baby homes, abortion and psychiatry in The Family Plot

"The bricks and mortar of asylums, orphanages and mother and baby ‘homes’ might physically contain, restrain and control, but it is the stories we tell ourselves about them that allow that to happen."

Clair Wills, author, writer and academic. Picture: Zahid Chaudhary

• The Family Plot 
• Clair Wills 
• London Review of Books, £12.99