Memoirs Of A Not So Dutiful Daughter
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The only child of an electrical engineer and a mother who resented the fact that she'd never been to university, the broadcaster Jenni Murray grew up in a traditional household in the 1950s. But instead of becoming the conventional housewife her mother expected her to be, Jenni opted to forge her own path in both her career and her personal life.
The resulting tensions have lasted as long as she can remember. How, she has often wondered, could two women be so close, so full of love for each other, and at the same time so full of hate that they broke each other's hearts?
And so Jenni began her remarkable memoir - and continued to write throughout 2006 as her mother lay dying, and Jenni struggled to care for her and her beloved father while herself being treated for breast cancer.
Filled with love and laughter, frustration and heartbreak, and with the courage 'to keep on keeping on' even in the darkest days, it will speak to every mother and daughter, dutiful or not.
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The resulting tensions have lasted as long as she can remember. How, she has often wondered, could two women be so close, so full of love for each other, and at the same time so full of hate that they broke each other's hearts?
And so Jenni began her remarkable memoir - and continued to write throughout 2006 as her mother lay dying, and Jenni struggled to care for her and her beloved father while herself being treated for breast cancer.
Filled with love and laughter, frustration and heartbreak, and with the courage 'to keep on keeping on' even in the darkest days, it will speak to every mother and daughter, dutiful or not.
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Product details
- Paperback | 336 pages
- 128 x 196 x 28mm | 281.23g
- 21 Apr 2009
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Black Swan
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 8pp
- 0552774073
- 9780552774079
- 480,809
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'Fearless' Guardian'Intense' Daily Mail
'Admirable' Sunday Times'Makes the heart weep' The Times
The broadcaster Jenni Murray grew up in a traditional household in the 1950s. But instead of becoming the housewife her mother expected her to be, Jenni opted to forge her own path in her career and her personal life.
The resulting tensions have lasted as long as she can remember. How, she has often wondered, could two women be, so full of love for each other, and at the same time so full of hate that they broke each other's hearts?
And so Jenni began this remarkable memoir - and continued to write throughout 2006 as her mother lay dying, and Jenni struggled to care for her and her beloved father while herself being treated for breast cancer.
Filled with love and laughter, frustration and heartbreak, and with the courage 'to keep on keeping on' even in the darkest days, it will speak to every mother and daughter, dutiful or not.
9780552774079
www.rbooks.co.uk
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'Admirable' Sunday Times'Makes the heart weep' The Times
The broadcaster Jenni Murray grew up in a traditional household in the 1950s. But instead of becoming the housewife her mother expected her to be, Jenni opted to forge her own path in her career and her personal life.
The resulting tensions have lasted as long as she can remember. How, she has often wondered, could two women be, so full of love for each other, and at the same time so full of hate that they broke each other's hearts?
And so Jenni began this remarkable memoir - and continued to write throughout 2006 as her mother lay dying, and Jenni struggled to care for her and her beloved father while herself being treated for breast cancer.
Filled with love and laughter, frustration and heartbreak, and with the courage 'to keep on keeping on' even in the darkest days, it will speak to every mother and daughter, dutiful or not.
9780552774079
www.rbooks.co.uk
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"She tells her story with admirable candour"
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"She is not just the voice of Radio 4's Woman's Hour...She IS Woman's Hour." -- THE TIMES "An intense story, vividly and sometimes humorously told." -- DAILY MAIL "Intimate, confessional ... as powerfully raw and moving as anything I've ever read." -- THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY "It is her fearless examination of her "love-hate" relationship with her mother ... that is most fascinating." -- GUARDIAN "She tells her story with admirable candour" -- Jane Shilling * Sunday Times *
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About Jenni Murray
Jenni Murray has presented Woman's Hour since 1987. 1999 she was awarded the OBE for her services to broadcasting. She is the author of three previous books.Is It Me or Is It Hot In Here? and That's My Boy, were published by Ebury; and The Woman's Hour: a History of Women in Britain since WW2, which was published by the BBC.
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