I often joke with my mum that she’s the antithe­sis of a Jew­ish mother.

“You never write, you never call,” I’m wont to say affec­tion­ately dur­ing phone con­ver­sa­tions I nearly always ini­ti­ate from my home in Toronto to hers in Prim­rose Hill: the ele­gant, celebrity-studded, north-west Lon­don neigh­bour­hood where she’s lived for almost 20 years.  Read more…