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How to Love Your Daughter
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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Summary
WINNER OF THE SAPIR PRIZE 2022
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.
Critic reviews
"This mesmerizing, quietly harrowing novel begins with a mother’s complete estrangement from her adult daughter and works backward to reveal the ways that maternal love can strangle when it was only trying to cradle, can recklessly misdirect when it wanted to protect. Excellent and unforgettable." (Ann Packer, author of The Children's Crusade and The Dive from Clauden's Pier)
"There are no villains nor angels, but rather a human complexity, to be identified with and feared… These possibilities – for introspection, to open for discussion that which was deemed an axiom, to understand the other – these are the exact signs of fine literature." (Noa Limone, Haaretz)
"This book wisely strums the delicate strings which connect parents and their children, winds them well and produces an agonizing and alluring piece of music." (Yoni Livneh, Yediot Aharonot)
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- Deborah
- 07-09-23
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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- justyna
- 02-02-24
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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- Mara Samaniego
- 02-11-23
lost
Never understood what was the point of the book or what the author was trying to convey. wasted time.
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