Memoirs Of A Not So Dutiful Daughter
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Published:26th Apr '18
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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.
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 *
A painfully honest account of a complex relationship. -- WOMAN & HOME
A captivating account of growing up in the 1950s and 1960s by the Woman's Hour presenter... she describes in frank and compelling detail how her parents have influenced and shaped her life, setting her personal experiences against a backdrop of changing social attitudes, politics and culture. -- SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE, August 2008
It is as though this skilled journalist is interviewing herself, reining back the instinct to comment and teasing out the story. This history of women's lives... is one well worth the telling. -- THE INDEPENDENT
A humorous and deeply human account, looking back at the rejected little girl who became the voice of Radio 4... a warm and revealing memoir. -- INDEPENDENT
Warm and thoroughly readable. -- INDEPENDENT
ISBN: 9781784163785
Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 21mm
Weight: 231g
336 pages