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How to Love Your Daughter

By: Hila Blum, Daniella Zamir - translator
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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Summary

Bloomsbury presents How to Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum, read by Cassandra Campbell.

WINNER OF THE SAPIR PRIZE 2022

‘A mesmerising, disquieting tale of family estrangement … Unforgettable’ OBSERVER

‘A striking and memorable novel’ MEG WOLITZER

‘A stone-cold masterwork of psychological tension. Its final pages had me holding my breath’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Hila Blum is my new favourite writer’ LOUISE KENNEDY

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What damage do we do in the blindness of love?

Thousands of miles from her home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the daughters of her only daughter, the grandchildren she’s never met.

At the centre of this mesmerising story is the woman’s quest to understand how a relationship that began in bliss – a mother besotted with her only child – arrived at a point of such unfathomable distance. Weaving back and forth in time, she unravels memories and long-buried feelings, retracing the infinite acts of parental care, each so mundane and apparently benign, that together may have undermined what she most treasured.

With exquisite psychological precision, Blum traces the seemingly insignificant missteps and deceptions of family life, where it’s possible to cross the line between protectiveness and possession without even seeing it – and it’s uncertain whether, or how, we can find our way back.

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'When I read this book, I felt ... that a new and wonderful occurrence has transpired in Israeli literature' Neri Livne, Haaretz

©2023 Hila Blum and Daniella Zamir (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Exhausting read with infuriating characters

Getting through this book was hard work. I did not gel with the main character or enjoy how it was read. I think the last time a character left me so frustrated and exasperated was when I read ‘The Idiot’. Not for me!

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Sadly the last few sentences of the book are missing

I listened to this book with interest all the way through, but was disturbed to find that the very last sentence or two was missing! Reloading does not seem to help me to find the missing words it seems to jump.

I am also unable - despite having been a member for so many years books - to find any place where I can report this to, and hopefully have it put right.

It seems a shame to have to ask for a refund and I’ll be happy to keep the book, but to not be able to make a complaint and have it resolved. It’s a shame.

An interesting book, I enjoyed the literary references, appreciated the legend, at the end, where they came from, and the characters developed well through the period of the book.

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lost

Never understood what was the point of the book or what the author was trying to convey. wasted time.

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