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Things I Want My Daughters to Know

Things I Want My Daughters to Know

Summary

'Honest and beautifully written' Woman & Home

The heartwarming classic about love and family from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Love, Iris will make you both laugh and cry.

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How would you say goodbye to those you love most in the world?


it's time for Barbara to say a final farewell to her four daughters. But how can she find the words? And how can she leave them when they each have so much growing up to do?

There's commitment-phobic Lisa. Brittle, unhappily married Jennifer. Free-spirited traveller Amanda. And teenage Hannah, stumbling her way towards adulthood.

Barbara's answer is to write each daughter a letter, finally expressing the hopes, fears, dreams and secrets she couldn't always say.

These words will touch the girls in different - sometimes shocking - ways, unlocking emotions and passions to set them on their own journey of discovery through life.
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'Enchantingly clever. I cried, I laughed, I couldn't put it down' Penny Vincenzi

'Irresistible' Glamour

Reviews

  • Enchantingly clever. I cried, I laughed, I couldn't put it down
    Penny Vincenzi

About the author

Elizabeth Noble

Elizabeth Noble's previous Sunday Times bestselling novels include: The Reading Group, which reached number one, The Friendship Test (formerly published as The Tenko Club), Alphabet Weekends, Things I Want My Daughters to Know, The Girl Next Door, The Way We Were, Between a Mother and her Child, Love, Iris and The Family Holiday. Between a Mother and her Child and Love, Iris were both Richard & Judy Book Club picks.
Elizabeth Noble lives in Surrey with her husband and has two adult daughters.
Other People's Husbands is her tenth novel.
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