Overview

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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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 *

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 *

Author Information

Jenni Murray is a journalist and broadcaster who presented BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour from 1987 to 2020. She is the author of several books and writes a weekly column in the Daily Mail. She lives in north London and the New Forest.

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