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When I Was a Girl

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Cursed by her grandmother and trapped in domestic violence in 1960s Britain, Evelyn must find a way to protect her five young daughters. Aware that her firstborn, Kim, is doomed to repeat her own disastrous life choices, Evelyn places her in the care of one of her admirers to protect her from her fate. Meanwhile, her daughter Bess carries a deep-rooted sense of shame and guilt that her birth nearly killed her beloved mother. Subjected to sexual abuse, she tries to make sense of her feelings and her place within the secretive family she grows up in, desperately seeking love and recognition from her mother. Tormented by sibling rivalry, Bess turns to story writing to make sense of her world.Are our lives a result of the programming we unconsciously receive from our parents and their parents before them, or can the patterns be changed?

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781914560361
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 342
  • Udgivet:
  • 18. marts 2022
  • Størrelse:
  • 127x203x22 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 304 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 30. november 2024

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Cursed by her grandmother and trapped in domestic violence in 1960s Britain, Evelyn must find a way to protect her five young daughters. Aware that her firstborn, Kim, is doomed to repeat her own disastrous life choices, Evelyn places her in the care of one of her admirers to protect her from her fate. Meanwhile, her daughter Bess carries a deep-rooted sense of shame and guilt that her birth nearly killed her beloved mother. Subjected to sexual abuse, she tries to make sense of her feelings and her place within the secretive family she grows up in, desperately seeking love and recognition from her mother. Tormented by sibling rivalry, Bess turns to story writing to make sense of her world.Are our lives a result of the programming we unconsciously receive from our parents and their parents before them, or can the patterns be changed?

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