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Had we talked enough about drugs, AIDS, birth control? Did she know how much I loved her? Or did she feel rejected?… I thought I should write her a long letter, to join up the dots and colour in the picture.’
The letter that Trish Sheppard planned to write to her daughter, who had just left home, grew into Motherhood, a series of interviews with fifteen highly individual women about their feelings on ‘mothering’. It is a moving and candid collection of anecdotes, reminiscences and dreams as well as an insight into the day-to-day realities of sharing your life with children. One of the women has a daughter with cerebral palsy, one has three adopted children from Chile, another is pregnant with a child conceived by artificial insemination, and one woman, who was told it was unlikely that she would be able to have children, now has eleven! These women and the others in the book, including Trish herself, talk frankly about their experiences of motherhood. What comes across most strongly, through all their laughter, tears and fears, is how important their role as a mother is to each of them.
Trish Sheppard has been a mother for almost half her life! She has a son of twenty, a daughter of twenty-one and a step-son of thirty. In between mothering she has written six other books. Three of them have been co-written with her partner and father of her children, television producer Iain Finlay. Trish has lived and travelled in many countries, working as a journalist for magazines and in radio and television.
Fran Plummer has been taking photographs since she was fifteen and has had her own darkroom, thanks to a supportive aunt, since she was twenty-five. A mother of three herself, Fran found meeting and photographing the fifteen women in this book an unforgettable experience.
Softcover. 344 pages.
In very good preloved condition, with the exception of a minor crease to the top, right cover and age-related yellowing.