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Jane Roper

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Jane Roper is the author of two novels, The Society of Shame and Eden Lake, and a memoir, Double Time: How I Surived—and Mostly Thrived—Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twints.

Jane’s writing has appeared in Salon, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Millions, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, Cognoscenti, Writers’ Digest and elsewhere, and has been included in the anthology Labor Day: True Birth Stories by today’s Best Women Writers.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Williams College, Jane is married to singer/songwriter Alastair Moock. They live with their teenage twins just north of Boston in a drafty Victorian house on a hill. When she is not working, writing, parenting, cooking, hiking, rock climbing or wasting time on so ...more

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	The Society of Shame 3.30 avg rating — 2,997 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Double Time: How I Survived---and Mostly Thrived---Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins 3.54 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eden Lake 3.76 avg rating — 132 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth by John E. Wade II (Goodreads Author), Donald Frampton (Introduction), Peter J. Tanous (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Double Time] [Author: Roper, Jane] [April, 2013] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Two lazy things I'm doing to fight the ravages of time on my bod

People are always asking me how I maintain my fantastic physique.

Hahaha no they aren’t. And “fantastic” would not be accurate. Like many a middle-aged woman who has borne children (two at once, in my case!), I’m not exactly killing it in the abdominal region. I have a belly, and her name is Sheila. We have fun.

But I am fairly fit and trim overall. I run, I hike, I go to an indoor climbing gym tw

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“And in the eye of the public, their sins were the sum total of who they were.”
― Jane Roper, The Society of Shame

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“The thing where I obsess over what other people think of me. People I don’t know or even particularly like. The thing we’re all doing here. Controlling narratives and changing conversations and getting back on top instead of trying to actually—I don’t know, grow.”
― Jane Roper, The Society of Shame

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“Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison”
― Jane Roper, Eden Lake

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