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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
Entertainment
Emma Gill

’I think motherhood puts a bomb under who you are and your relationships' says writer of new ITV drama series Maternal

A new drama series set in Manchester is likely to strike a chord with every parent, especially working mums.

The six part series is about three female doctors returning to post-pandemic frontline medicine after maternity leave and having to heroically balance the intense demands of the NHS and motherhood.

Inspired by writer Jacqui Honess-Martin's own experience of returning to work after maternity leave with her first child, she admits she found the whole thing 'really, really hard' and struggled to comprehend how female medics could cope with such 'life and death decisions'.

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