A Reluctant Mother

Author : Zehra Naqvi
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789391067212

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The Reluctant Mother by Zehra Naqvi Pdf

The Reluctant Mother is a book of rage. Rage at being alone in your pain, having your conflict belittled, and your struggles trivialised. It is the story of a young woman who seeks to find herself in a world that constantly tries to define her and who she should be. It is the memoir of an anti-mother. A woman who doesn’t fall in love with her baby at first sight but discovers love along the way. This book is for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the idea of ‘ideal’ motherhood. Be it a woman or a man, one way of confronting trauma is to know that you are not alone in it. To know that someone shares your story and understands your emotions and guilt that accompanies feeling anything other than ‘perfectly blissful’ about motherhood. It is at once heartbreaking and poignant as it is hopeful and comforting. It is the story of one woman and yet the life of many. It reveals how tradition and modernity, faith and reason, pleasure and pain are all so intimately interwoven for women that their true sense of self is inevitably one of contradictions. The book’s biggest strength lies in its rawness and honesty. Nothing but the truth stands here.

Author : Deirdre Simon Dore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1553807103

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A Reluctant Mother by Deirdre Simon Dore Pdf

Honest, sometimes humorous and often tragic, FRIDA's narrative tells a modern tale of a conflagration of deceit, adultery, regret and love. Frida, childless by choice, is an artist with a heartbreaking childhood history. When she agrees to allow her husband's spurious daughter into their lives they are devastatingly changed forever. Frida tells her story while confined to a hospital bed where a very young lawyer relentlessly pushes for a recounting of events. Frida's memory, though often faulty and sporadic, comes back to her in poignant scenes that she is forced to relive, each alarming act leading to yet another even more ill-advised. In FRIDA, Deirdre Simon Dore's evocative writing has created a difficult, blunt and vitally genuine "reluctant mother." A contemporary novel of a woman whose relationships are an exercise in hilarity and tragedy both. Deidre Simon Dore has won The Journey Prize; Western Magazines Gold Award for Fiction; Short Grain Award and was a Best Canadian Stories selection. Praise for Deirdre Simon Dore's Writing: "A wonderful rarity: a lightly told and very funny story that nevertheless bears great weight ... an imaginative and original voice the reader will return to with pleasure."--Journey Prize jury "Weaves a near-cinematic spell of brewing suspense... as these unforgettable characters collide."--Malahat Review Fiction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9391067204

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The Reluctant Mother by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lauren Slater
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807061121

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Playing House by Lauren Slater Pdf

Acclaimed author Lauren Slater ruminates on what it means to be family. Lauren Slater’s rocky childhood left her cold to the idea of ever creating a family of her own, but a husband, two dogs, two children, and three houses later, she came around to the challenges, trials, and unexpected rewards of playing house. In these autobiographical pieces, Slater presents snapshots of domestic life, populating them with the gritty details and jarring realities of sharing home, life, and body in the curious institution called “family.” She asks difficult questions and probes unsettling truths about sex, love, and parenting. In these pages, Slater introduces us to her struggles with her mother, her determination to make a home of her own, her compromises in deciding to marry (her conflicts manifesting as an affair on the eve of her wedding), her initial struggle to connect with her newborn child, and the dilemmas of mothering with a mental illness. She writes openly about her decision to abort her second pregnancy and her later decision to have a second child after all. She tells us about the searing decision to have elective double mastectomy and how her love for her husband was magically rekindled after she saw him catch fire in a chemical accident. It’s not all mastectomies and chemical fires, though. Slater digs into the everyday challenges of family living, from buying a lemon of a car and fighting back menacing weeds to gaining weight and being jealous of the nanny. Beautifully written, often humorous, and always revealing, these stories scrutinize the complex questions surrounding family life, offering up sometimes uncomfortable truths.

Author : Hemmie Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1941058639

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The Reluctant Mother by Hemmie Martin Pdf

Postnatal psychosis strips Colette of her early time with her baby, shreds her sanity, and almost destroys her marriage. When suicide seems the only option, Colette must face her limitations and move forward with demons clinging to every aspect of her life, whilst desperately trying to hold on to what she dearly loves.

Author : Maureen Fergus
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554530250

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Exploits of a Reluctant (But Extremely Goodlooking) Hero by Maureen Fergus Pdf

Adrian Mole meets South Park as an outrageously crude 13-year-old boy learns some important lessons.

Author : Laura Ann Mullane
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1495391787

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Swimming for Shore by Laura Ann Mullane Pdf

"I was consumed with doubt....I couldn't shake the feeling that had been trailing me since my son's birth: that everyone but me enjoyed being a mom. Again, I would hear complaints about the amount of work and lack of sleep, but, to a person, everyone seemed confident that they'd made the right choice in having children, that they couldn't imagine their lives otherwise. Was I the only one who doubted it? Was I the only one who wondered what I would do if someone had come to me with a time machine and said, 'You can go back and make a different choice'?" In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Laura Ann Mullane explores her decision to have children in spite of her many doubts, and the struggle to come to terms with her new role as Mom after her son and daughter are born. At turns both laugh-out-loud funny and gut wrenching, she explores everything from the high-pressure Perfect Mother's Club of the Washington, D.C., suburbs, to the guilt and shame that plagued her as she navigated her children's tantrums and the constant demands of motherhood. A book that should be on the shelf of every person who has struggled with the decision whether to have kids, and every parent who has simultaneously loved their children and fantasized about life without them, this memoir goes straight to the core.

Author : Sharon Lamb
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780807082478

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The Not Good Enough Mother by Sharon Lamb Pdf

A psychologist who evaluates the fitness of parents when their children have been removed from their custody finds herself reassessing her own mothering when her son falls victim to the opioid crisis. Psychologist and expert witness Dr. Sharon Lamb evaluates parents, particularly in high-stakes cases concerning the termination of parental rights. The conclusions she reaches can mean that some children are returned home from foster homes. Others are freed for adoption. Well-trained, Lamb generally can decide what’s in the best interests of the child. But when her son’s struggle with opioid addiction comes to light, she starts to doubt her right to make judgments about other mothers. As an expert, a professor, and a mother, Lamb gives voice to the near impossible standards demanded by a society prone to blame mothers when anything befalls their children. She describes vividly the plight of individual parents, mothers in particular, struggling with addiction and mental illness and trying to make stable homes for their kids amid the economic and emotional turmoil of their lives—all in the context of the opioid epidemic that has ravaged her home state of Vermont. In her office, during visits with their children, and in the family court, the parents we meet wait anxiously for Lamb’s verdict: Have they turned their lives around under child welfare’s watchful eye? Do they understand their children’s needs? In short, are they good enough? But what is good enough? Lamb turns that question on herself in the midst of her gradual realization of her son’s opioid addiction. Amazed at her own denial, feeling powerless to help him, Lamb confronts the heartache she can bring into the lives of others and her power to tear families apart.

Author : Susin Nielsen
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781770496545

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The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen by Susin Nielsen Pdf

Thirteen-year-old Henry's happy, ordinary life comes to an abrupt halt when his older brother, Jesse, picks up their father's hunting rifle and leaves the house one morning. What follows shatters Henry's family, who are forced to resume their lives in a new city, where no one knows their past. When Henry's therapist suggests he keeps a journal, at first he is resistant. But soon he confides in it at all hours of the day and night.

Author : Laurie Alice Eakes
Publisher : Revell
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781441243089

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A Reluctant Courtship (The Daughters of Bainbridge House Book #3) by Laurie Alice Eakes Pdf

Honore Bainbridge has been courted by two men, one of whom turned out to be a traitor, the other a murderer. Banished to her family's country estate, where she will hopefully stay out of trouble, she finally meets the man she is sure is exactly right for her: Lord Ashmoor. Tall, dark, and handsome--what more could a girl ask for? But he too is under suspicion because of his American upbringing and accusations that he has helped French and American prisoners escape from Dartmoor Prison. For his part, Lord Ashmoor needs a wife beyond reproach, which Honore certainly is not. Amid a political climate that is far from friendly, Honore determines to help Ashmoor prove his innocence--if she can do so and stay alive. From the rocky cliffs of Devonshire, England, comes the exciting conclusion to the lush Daughters of Bainbridge House series. Award-winning author Laurie Alice Eakes thrusts her readers into high drama from the very first sentence and keeps them on their toes until the final page.

Author : Martha Ockley
Publisher : Lion Fiction
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782641261

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The Reluctant Detective by Martha Ockley Pdf

"Couldn't resist touching the body, eh?" observed Ben. Faith was defiant. "I had to check for a pulse." Faith Morgan may have quit the world of crime, but crime won't let her go. The ex-policewoman has retrained as a priest, disillusioned with a tough police culture and convinced that she can do more good this way. But now her worlds collide. Searching for the first posting of her new career, she witnesses a sudden and shocking death in a quiet Hampshire village. And of all people, Detective Inspector Ben Shorter, her former colleague and boyfriend, shows up to investigate the crime. Persuaded to stay on in Little Worthy, she learns surprising details about the victim and starts to piece together a motive for his death. But is she now in danger herself? And what should she do about Ben? Then a further horrifying event deepens the mystery...

Author : Yvonne Kjorlien
Publisher : Yvonne Kjorlien
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476464411

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Memoirs of a Reluctant Archaeologist by Yvonne Kjorlien Pdf

Elise Marquette likes dead people, but digging up the dead doesn't pay. Consulting Archaeology does. Her desperate need for a job has biological anthropologist Elise stuck in a mundane existence with greedy callous oil companies for clients. It's sucking the life out of her and she can't see a way out. As if that wasn't enough, Elise's family is a disaster, and she's given up on love and romance. Just when she'd resigned herself to torturous family dinners, cheap comfort food, safety forms and steel-toed boots, she meets an Irish archaeologist during a brief respite to Ireland. The blue-eyed Gavin Clearly has Elise re-evaluating what happiness is and what it's truly worth. Get ready to join Elise Marquette on a wild ride full of adventure, heart, and healthy dose of humour. Eat your heart out, Indiana Jones - Elise is the new queen of archaeology!

Author : Sonya Sones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442493834

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One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones Pdf

Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.

Author : Suzan Saxman,Perdita Finn
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250047793

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The Reluctant Psychic by Suzan Saxman,Perdita Finn Pdf

We all, as children, saw imaginary friends and heard monsters in the closet. But for Suzan Saxman, those friends and monsters didn't go away—and they weren't imaginary. They were the dead who came to her from the time she was a little girl with urgent messages for the living. Raised in a house filled with secrets, she saw and spoke the truth as soon as she could talk, alarming the nuns in her convent school with her revelations and terrifying her own mother with her strange visions. Each night she woke to see a man with no eyes watching her, and each day she kept watch by the window while her father was at work and Steve, her real father, a swarthy drifter, rendezvoused with her mother. It was the 1960s in suburban Staten Island and she tried to hide it all, and be a daughter her mother could love. Always skeptical of her tremendous gift, she struggled to come to terms with her calling even as she revealed the destinies of everyone, from housewives to hit men, stockbrokers to rock-and-rollers. She could witness everyone's future—everyone's but her own. Why was she visited by angels and demons? Could she ever escape this strange fate? Where was her own soul mate? Now Suzan tells the story of her journey and tries to make sense of her family's buried secrets. Through powerful readings of others' destinies interwoven with compelling narrative, a reluctant psychic emerges from the shadows.

Author : Teresa Howard
Publisher : Champagne Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781947128392

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The Reluctant Empress by Teresa Howard Pdf

Ninallia is young, young and desperate. She decides to sell the only thing she owns to save her family: her body. Believing family stories that she descends from royal blood, she agrees to become a surrogate for an infertile couple. The lucrative agreement will provide for her family for several years. Ninallia’s world is turned upside down when the Emperor and Empress are assassinated, and she discovers that the child she is carrying is the heir. Her life and that of her unborn child are in grave danger. Disguised as a boy, Ninallia flees. If she is to survive the power hungry lord hunting for her, she has to seek help. She finds two allies, a League Soldier and a Sister of the Order. Together they must keep Ninallia alive until her son is born and his blood tested to prove that he is the Imperial Heir. With everyone searching for them, will they live long enough?