Full name: Unravelled: Life as a Mother

Author: Maria Housden Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

Maria Housden tells of her own transformation, as a mother, a wife and a woman, as she struggled to cope with the death of her daughter Hannah and make the hardest decision of her life. From the author of the bestselling Hannah's Gift. At the age of 36, instead of enjoying the perfect family life she had imagined as a child, Maria felt judged and found wanting by others. She realised that, no matter how much she still loved her husband and how powerful her bond of love was with her children, she had to change her life radically -- she had to make it her own again. What followed was an emotional and enlightening search for herself. Written in the same moving, lyrical style as Hannah's Gift, the story unfolds in a series of painful, joyful and humorous moments. At times the story is heart-wrenchingly sad but ultimately it is uplifting and inspiring. Similar books: The Liars' Club by Mary Karr Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett Another Forgotten Child by Cathy Glass Borrowed Time by Paul Monette Amateur Night at the Bubblegum Kittikat by Victoria Fedden Hannah's Gift by Maria Housden Trials of the Earth by Mary Mann Hamilton Becoming a Man by Paul Monette Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot The Pornographer's Daughter by Kristin Battista-Frazee Widening Circles by Joanna Macy Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan Burning the Days by James Salter Sex Death Enlightenment by Mark Matousek Mother California by Kenneth E. Hartman Bastards by Mary Anna King Falling Through Space by Ellen Gilchrist All the Wrong Places by Philip Connors Those Were the Days by Edward A. Walls Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut by Paul Krassner