My Daughter, My Mother

Author: Annie Murray
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447213653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 463

Book Description
In 1984 two young mothers meet at a toddler group in Birmingham. As their friendship grows, they share with each other the difficulties and secrets in their lives: Joanne, a sweet, shy girl, is increasingly afraid of her husband. The lively, promising man she married has become hostile and violent and she is too ashamed to tell anyone. When her mother, Margaret is suddenly rushed into hospital, the bewildered family find that there are things about their mother of which they had no idea. Margaret was evacuated from Birmingham as a child and has spent years avoiding the pain of her childhood - but finds that you can't run from the past forever. Sooky, kind and good-natured, has already been through one disastrous marriage and is back at home living with her parents. But being 'disgraced' is not easy. Her mother, Meena, refuses to speak to Sooky. At first her silence seems like a punishment, but Sooky gradually realizes it contains emotions which are far more complicated and that her mother may need her help. Meena has spent twenty years trying to fit in with life in Birmingham, and to deal with the conflicts within her between east and west, old ways and new. My Daughter, My Mother by bestselling saga author Annie Murray, is the story of two young women discovering the heartbreak of their mothers' lives, and of how mothers create daughters - and learn from them.

My Mother's Daughter

Author: Perdita Felicien
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385689985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A phenomenal, human story. . . . I could not put this book down." —CLARA HUGHES An instant national bestseller, this raw and affecting memoir is the story of a mother and daughter who beat the odds together. Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nation's hopes—she carried her mother Catherine's dreams. In 1974, Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she's also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows it's her chance. They ask her to come to Canada to be their nanny—and she accepts. This was the beginning of Catherine's new life: a life of opportunity, but also suffering. Within a few years, she would find herself pregnant a third time—this time in her new country with no family to support her, and this time, with Perdita. Together, in the years to come, mother and daughter would experience racism, domestic abuse, and even homelessness, but Catherine's will would always pull them through. As Perdita grew and began to discover her preternatural athletic gifts, she was edged onward by her mother's love, grit, and faith. Facing literal and figurative hurdles, she learned to leap and pick herself back up when she stumbled. This book is a daughter's memoir—a book about the power of a parent's love to transform their child's life.

My Mother My Daughter

Author: Marita Malone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781512010954
Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
"One of the most fascinating and insightful adoption stories I have read. The author captures the essence in adoption in a most intriguing way. Not only is the reader led throughout her life's struggles and adventures, but the reader is also treated to an inner wise woman, who speaks to her throughout her life. Although she finds disappointments and frustration as she pursues her journey to self, her story provides proof that with courage, honesty, and tenacity there can be a happy ending to this lifelong odyssey. The book will appeal not only to everyone connected to adoption but also to those who enjoy an interesting adventure as well," according to Nancy Verrier, psychotherapist, lecturer, and author of the Primal Wound and Coming Home to Self.A book that touches the heart of mothers and daughters, adopted adults, and anyone who seeks answers to life-long questions.

My Mother, My Daughter, My Self

Author: GOLDBERG
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911383055
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

MY MOTHER'S BOOK.

Author: ELMA. VAN VLIET
Publisher:
ISBN: 0143133748
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description

My Mother's Daughter

Author: H. J. Cummins
Publisher: Cathedral Hill Press
ISBN: 097429862X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Journalist H.J. Cummins grew up thinking her mother never liked her. In search of answers, she learns about her mother's traumatic past in Germany under Hitler, under the economic and personal hardship where survival comes at the expense of joy and security. Through Cummins's studies in history and psychology, she breaks the cycles of miscommunication.

Her Daughter's Mother

Author: Daniela Petrova
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525539999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
She befriended the one woman she was never supposed to meet. Now she's the key suspect in her disappearance. For fans of The Perfect Mother and The Wife Between Us comes a gripping psychological suspense debut about two strangers, one incredible connection, and the steep price of obsession. Lana Stone has never considered herself a stalker--until the night she impulsively follows a familiar face through the streets of New York's Upper West Side. Her target? The "anonymous" egg donor she'd selected through an agency, the one who's making motherhood possible for her. Hungry to learn more about her, Lana plans only to watch her from a distance. But when circumstances bring them face-to-face, an unexpected friendship is born. Katya, a student at Columbia, is the yin to Lana's yang, an impulsive free spirit who lives life at the edge. And for pragmatic Lana, she's a breath of fresh air and a welcome distraction from her painful breakup with her baby's father. Then, just as suddenly as Katya entered Lana's life, she disappears--and Lana might have been the last person to see her before she went missing. Determined to find out what became of the woman to whom she owes so much, Lana digs into Katya's past, even as the police grow suspicious of her motives. But she's unprepared for the secrets she unearths, and their power to change everything she thought she knew about those she loves best...

He's My Daughter

Author: Lynda Langley
Publisher: ISBS
ISBN: 9780957873551
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
A shocking phone call from their distraught daughter-in-law was how Lynda and Richard Langley learnt that their son had started his transition from a man to a woman. The mad rush to their son's hospital bedside, anguish and fear for his physical health, shock from the nature of his injury, and the dread of the challenges to be faced in the coming months and years... Lynda's account of how she adjusted to the reality that her eldest son had decided to physically become a woman is the story of a family. Tears and laughter, support and withdrawal, accompany Toni -- now the eldest daughter -- as she maps out her new life. And with her all the time is Lynda, her mother. Helping to select her wardrobe, guiding her in the subtleties of speech and behaviour, and supporting her, especially in the early stages of her new life as a woman. A mother's story of losing a son and gaining a daughter -- a transsexual transition and a mother's love. While there have been some accounts of transsexual transition published on the web, this is the first account from a parent's perspective, and the first to be published in book form.

What I Told My Daughter

Author: Nina Tassler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476734674
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
A collection of essays from notable, highly accomplished women in politics, academia, athletics, the arts offering advice for raising empowered girls.

I Am My Mother's Daughter

Author: Iris Krasnow
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465008380
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Iris Krasnow -- mother, daughter, and best-selling Journalist -- tackles the toughest relationship in the lives of many grown women: the mother-daughter bond. With women's life expectancy inching up past eighty, you may be embroiled with your mother well past the time your own hair turns white. The good news: Living longer means more time to make peace -- and this book shows you how. Drawing on her own experience with her colorful eighty-four-year-old mother and the collective wisdom of more than one hundred other adult daughters, Krasnow offers a fresh perspective on how to overcome the anger, guilt, and resentment that can destroy a family. The time to repair the bond is now, she reminds us: You can't kiss and make up at her funeral. The key is to let go of the fantasy mom and embrace the flesh-and-blood woman, with all her flaws.