Yes, Mama
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AlbakiReads Editorial A childhood shaped by rejection and chosen care
A childhood shaped by rejection and chosen care
Alicia Woodman’s early life is marked by the refusal of the family into which she was born: neither her mother Elizabeth nor Humphrey Woodman offers her a secure place. Her upbringing instead falls to Polly Ford, a dock labourer’s widow whose care gives Alicia an alternative model of family. Set against social judgment and respectability, the novel places inherited ties in tension with the sustaining force of everyday love and protection. The revised edition centers a girl’s development amid neglect, class-conscious disapproval, and the possibility of belonging beyond blood relations.
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- Readers interested in literary fiction about childhood and family estrangement
- Those drawn to stories of fostered or chosen family bonds
- Readers seeking fiction set against social prejudice and class expectations
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Childhood neglectChosen familyMotherhood and careSocial hypocrisyBelonging
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Book Overview From the author of four bestselling autobiographies and a number of equally successful novels, comes another moving tale.A triumph of inn...
From the author of four bestselling autobiographies and a number of equally successful novels, comes another moving tale.
A triumph of innocence over hypocrisy...
Alicia Woodman was born into a home that should have been filled with comfort and joy. Her mother Elizabeth was bright and vivacious, Humphrey Woodman was a prosperous businessman. But Alicia was not Humphrey's child and he would have nothing to do with her, and before long Elizabeth, too, turned her back on her daughter.
It was left to Polly Ford, widow of a dock labourer, to bring Alicia up, to teach her to say 'Yes, Mama' and to give the child the love she so desperately needed. In a hypocritical society full of thin-lipped disapproval, Alicia would learn that the human spirit can soar over adversity and that, though blood may be thicker than water, love is the most powerful relationship of all...
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 362 | Language: English | Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS | ISBN: 0006174701
FormatPaperback
Pages362
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0006174701
EAN9780006174707
PublisherHARPERCOLLINS
Publication Date2000-03-06
EditionRevised
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.56 Pounds
Length7.0 Inches
Width4.37 Inches
Height0.92 Inches
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