Dimensions
142 x 220 x 33mm
'I feel I am beginning a love letter. I'm saying things I could not have expressed even a year ago because there was a barrier between us that's existed for as long as I can remember. It collapsed on the day in hospital when I held your hand and stroked your hair, and you said, ' Do you love me? I've often wondered.' So begins the memoir of broadcaster and renowned presenter of Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Jenni Murray. Part open-letter to her mother, part memoir of her own upbringing in the 1950s and 60s, this moving and honest book will attempt to make sense of a relationship and a woman who has haunted Jenni's life from the moment she was born; and who has driven so must of what she has achieved. Subjective and confessional in its approach and subject matter, yet universal in its appeal, this memoir will tackle such themes as childhood, depression and how it was treated in post-war Britain and today; sexual experience; the politics of feminism; childbirth; and, most topically, the responsibility of many women today for caring for a sick and dependent parent. It will be the most talked-about memoir of next summer.
