My Mother Next Door
- Author Diane Danvers Simmons
- Narrator Diane Danvers Simmons
- Publish Date 3 May 2022
- Run Time 8 hours and 16 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Humour, Memoirs, Parenting: advice and issues, Relationships and families: advice and issues.
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What to expect
It’s hardly newsworthy when a man walks out on his family. But it’s rather unusual for a mother to walk out, leaving the father to bring up their sixteen-year-old daughter—and downright scandalous for said Irish Catholic mother to move into the house next door to start a new life with a bunch of hot male students at the age of sixty.
No one can accuse Diane Danvers Simmons of telling a familiar story. Instead she offers a wickedly witty, candid, irreverent, British coming-of-age story with a fresh take on maternal abandonment.
In My Mother Next Door, she shares the life lessons learned growing up in the revolutionary 1970s while her narcissistic mother charted her own unfathomable course to independence and freedom.
After living in America for decades and becoming a mother herself, Diane journeys back through the madness of her early years, coming to terms with a comical, painful family history but also celebrating the strength and humor it has given her to face the absurdity of life
In trying to understand what drove her mother to become the woman next door, Diane discovers new respect, love, and even forgiveness: the root of our humanity.
Critics Review
“Diane’s experiences and relationship with her mother touched all of my emotions, from love and happiness, to hate and sorrow.”
“Diane has captured the delightful soul of her younger self…A must-read!”
“This is a unique and compelling story of mother loss, grief, and healing…Read this book and soak in the gift of personal growth that forgiveness brings.”
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