Author: Joanna Nadin
Genre: Fiction
The prolific children’s author Joanna Nadin is back with her first book for adults. Dido has grown up under the shadow of her mother Edie, who swears, drinks, has sex and doesn’t mould herself into the conventions expected of motherhood or suburban Cambridge.
But as Dido grows up, falls in love with the boy next door and moves on with her life, she has to wrestle with guilt about abandoning her mother and fear about her health. The book expertly follows funny and chubby eight-year-old Dido into adulthood, swinging from gentle comedy towards something sadder, and wiser. This book is a must read for an analysis of a modern mother-daughter relationship, a topic that is all too often left unexplored in today’s fiction.
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