Posts Tagged ‘things i want my daughters to know’

Barabara knows she’s dying. In response to this she writes letters to her daughters, Hannah, Amanda, Lisa and Jennifer telling them her thoughts on dying as well as revealing some long-kept family secrets.

Lisa is terrified of commitment, Jennifer is unhappily married, Amanda just cannot settle down and Hannah is a teenager forced to grow up quickly because her mother dies. Each letter to the girls helps them move on and also gives them answers to some long-kept questions.

Can Barbara’s husband Mark also move on from his wife’s death?

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Barbara has been diagnosed with cancer, and realises she isn’t going to be around for her family much longer. So she decides to write her four daughters a series of letters, each personal and individual for them, so that they have a little bit of their mother left after she has gone.

Her daughters are devastated at their loss, but will they manage to draw any comfort from their mothers letters?? Will they be able to come together as a family to miss their mother properly, and will the letters set them free from the lives they are living in?

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