An instant bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, Hope Edelman's Motherless Daughters explores the myriad ways that losing a mother can affect almost every aspect and passage of a woman's life. First published a decade ago, it is still the book that motherless daughters of all ages look to for understanding and comfort and that they press into each other's hands. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother- loss survivors, this life-affirming book is now newly expanded to reflect the author's personal experience with the continued legacy of mother loss; now married and a mother of young children herself, Edelman better understands how the effects of mother loss change over time and in light of new relationships. A work of stunning courage and honesty, Motherless Daughters is a must read for the millions of women whose mothers have gone, but whose need for healing, mourning, and mothering remains. It is a timeless classic.
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Hope Edelman is a writer whose work has appeared nationally. She graduated from the University of Iowa Writing Program and lives in New York City. Her mother died when she was seventeen.
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MY MOTHER DIED IN THE MIDDLE of summer, with everything in full bloom. Read the first page
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From the moment I read the first few pages, I knew I had hit upon the most familiar, yet previously unwritten, words I had read to date. In a world where only 5 percent of children lose a parent while they are young, I had felt completely, utterly alone. No one I knew could understand my pain; I learned early not to burden anyone with it. The book takes the reader inside the mind and heart of an author who lost her mother at a crucial time (what time isn't?). When another has experienced the same loss, it is as though the words she reads are her own. Slowly, tenderly, she unravels the stories of other women who were orphaned (not meaning 'without parents' but technically defined as 'motherless') at a young age and gives them life. She beautifully and bravely takes the reader through her worst fears - having children, attaching to another person, dying at the same age as her mother. Hope Edelman, through a series of stories about women like me, has written my story. It is a book that healed a part of me previously untouched, and allowed me to finally take my place as a woman who would survive the most profound loss any child could experience.
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This book was such an enlightening for me. At the age of 41, I finally am understanding how the loss of my mother 23 years ago has had an impact on my life today. There were so many woman that contributed to that book that validated so many of my feelings.
I would recommend this book to any woman that has lost their mother. Absolutely FANTASTIC !
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By Bella Blue
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This book has been very well researched and written. I would say that it is for any women who has lost a mother btween birth and 30years old. The author has thoroughly researched this subject of lose so much so that to me she seems to cover every possibility of loss of a mother. In the early chapters I was worried that the book would not cover my situation (losing a mother who I had a difficult relationship with and had caused me harm and pain)and felt that what I may read would cause me more harm by rubbing salt in the wounds, as it talked of mother's as loving, providing figures, which my mother wasn't. However as I moved on in the book it covered my circumstances and the additional difficulties and complications in grieving a mother who wasn't as a mother should be.
Many of the feelings and thoughts I have had over the years I have pushed back down feeling that they were twisted or in some way wrong. Reading in this book that many other women have had the same feelings and thoughts has validated mine and helped me to face them head on.
I feel that this book would be an excellent tool to aid women who are trying to address and work through the loss of their mother at a relatively young age. It also covers the relationships we have with our fathers, siblings and step families plus future relationships with partners and the complications which may arise there.
It is a book I am and will continue to use, as I face up to the sad reality of my past.
Many of the feelings and thoughts I have had over the years I have pushed back down feeling that they were twisted or in some way wrong. Reading in this book that many other women have had the same feelings and thoughts has validated mine and helped me to face them head on.
I feel that this book would be an excellent tool to aid women who are trying to address and work through the loss of their mother at a relatively young age. It also covers the relationships we have with our fathers, siblings and step families plus future relationships with partners and the complications which may arise there.
It is a book I am and will continue to use, as I face up to the sad reality of my past.
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Opened my eyes and my mind enabling me to work through a tough time.
Opened my eyes and my mind enabling me to work through a tough time.
Published 5 months ago by Mrs L Jenkins
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Every motherless daugther should read
This is my first book review ever, but I feel a duty to share my impressions about this great book, which would have been invaluable to me 16 years ago, when I lost my... Read more
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I can't express how much this book helped me. I have to demand that anyone that has experienced the loss of their mother reads this. Read more
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I ordered this book as a used but good quality. When it arrived I realised I couldn't give it to the person required as it was written all over the opening pages & had scribblings... Read more
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I bought this book after reading some reviews and recommendations. It was not what I expected and really was not for me. Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2011 by Poppet
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Good but not for early mourners
I'm 26 and i lost my mum just over a month ago, I wanted a book that would help me understand what I was going through. Read more
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My First Form of Therapy
Having lost my mother to suicide at 17 (I'm now 22) I have found this book to be very comforting- although naturally sometimes upsetting. Read more
Published on 12 July 2010 by R
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Fantastic insightful book
I can only echo a lot of what the other reviewers have said about this fantastic book. It is very thorough and well written and the best I have read about bereavement of a mother. Read more
Published on 8 Sep 2009 by M. Casey
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I'm hoping this will help my grand daughters come to terms with their mummy dying suddenly from cancer. It seems to cover a wide range of circumstances that i hope will help them.
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