“The Secrets of Midwives” by Sally Hepworth: Features of Multiple Personality (a.k.a. “dissociative identity")
— Memory Gaps related to alcohol (1, p. 274) or getting pregnant
— Metaphors of psychological self-dividedness; a character’s “parts”
— Compartmentalized Chapters and no omniscient point-of-view
Comment: Most people do not have prominent memory gaps, even with alcohol. They have facets, not “parts” (a euphemism for alternate personalities); and their regular personality has an omniscient point-of-view for its own stories.
1. Sally Hepworth. The Secrets of Midwives. New York, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015.
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