This is a luminous book about real life: about love, loss, motherhood, daughterhood, about sex, longing and fear, regret and the terrible pain of hindsight. It’s a must-read for parents, forcing us to look beyond present disagreement with our children to the health of our future with them. And it’s a fabulous story, whose last third I had to read in one sitting into the small hours. This book must surely have taken courage to write. I loved it.
