Mothers and Daughters: From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a captivating family drama

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In both McCracken’s The Hero of This Bookand Tillman’s Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence, daughters try to transcribe the discordant emotions provoked by a mother’s decline and death. If the perpetrator is a popular and successful member of the community, who is going to believe that such horrors are happening behind closed doors? The best book I’ve ever read on the internal struggles of a daughter to break away from the mother, and why it is so important to persevere. Energetic, interested in everything, she was often preoccupied: “There was always something that needed her attention.

Mothers and Daughters follows Mum Naomi, her two grown up daughters Martha and Willow, and their partners. Enhanced with an informed and informative introduction, [this book] offers thoughtful and thought-provoking discourses which are highly recommended for Literary Studies and Women’s Studies reference collections and reading lists.But as the story unfolds, and the layers peel back, revealing secrets from deep in the family’s past, it becomes easier to empathise with Martha.

Having decided the time is right for a baby, Martha is dismayed that after ten months of trying she still hasn’t conceived and it’s starting to feel like failure to a woman driven by perfectionism. Whether you read it or listen to the audiobook, you’ll want to read this novel before the film adaptation comes out. But Mother utters it six weeks before she dies, after years of cognitive decline; it seems equally possible that it was the dementia talking. With thanks to HQ Digital and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.Jacobs here offers a brilliant reinterpretation of the Oresteia myth, and in doing so shows us how we can change our thinking. It sends some significant messages to readers about acceptance of life choices and I appreciate this moral message that James is trying to convey. This one just kept in delivering, it had everything I enjoy in a book, sadness and happiness and a happy ending. Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for giving me an e-book copy of this novel for a review. When Sophie is sent from Haiti to New York to reunite with her estranged mother, she discovers secrets that no 12-year-old should know.

With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my digital ARC to read in exchange for an honest review. Making sense of these relationships can be challenging and upsetting, rewarding and fulfilling, all at once. It was a lovely family drama that rests on the importance of communication and this evolves over the story. Her mother never had full use of her legs—she walked with canes, and by the end was riding a scooter.A captivating story about a mother’s relationship with her two daughters, to protect them she has kept secrets and her daughters now understanding their mother is a free and independent woman, she has every right to live where she chooses, start a new relationship and fall in love. Martha in particular, having been so close to her father and being very touchy because she failed to become pregnant is particularly against the poor man. Now I’ve read this one I’m going to try and read the ones I’ve missed plus re-read the others I haven’t.