Book description
Angela Bradbury's 'Poor Mother' : delicate, humble, permanently
disappointed, has made endless sacrifices for her family, for which
they can never quite be grateful enough. 'You can't please your
mother', as her father says.
Even now, just one phone call from Mother can send Angela spiralling
into guilt, self-recrimination and doubts over her own abilities as a
mother. Worryingly, Angela's relationship with her own daughter Sadie
seems to be going the same way, as Sadie develops into a sullen,
unresponsive adolescent. It seems that motherhood is a heritage of
disappointments and broken promises. But Angela is determined that,
somehow, her relationship with Sadie will be different.
Margaret Forster is the author of many successful and acclaimed
novels, including
Have the Men Had Enough?,
Lady's Maid
,
Diary of an Ordinary Woman
,
Is There Anything You Want?, Over
and
Isa and May
, as well as bestselling memoirs (
Hidden Lives
and
Precious Lives
) and biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies
and lives in London and the Lake District.
