Book description
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.
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 Wo
man's Hour: a History of Women in Britain since WW2,
which was published by the BBC.
