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Letters From Brenda

On sale

12th May 2022

Price: £18.99

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Selected: Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781529371970

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‘Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It’s a lovely LOVELY book’ Marian Keyes
‘This book made me cry’ Sara Cox

After her mother, Brenda, passed away and her father sold the family home, broadcaster and writer Emma Kennedy found herself floundering, unable to make peace with the complex, charismatic woman who had been her mum. And then they found the letters . . .

This heartbreakingly funny book about the impact of discovering lost letters is a celebration of correspondence; those lost acts of penned love, the vivid snapshots in time scattered back through a life.

It is also about a childhood shrouded in shame, the lies Brenda told her family, the madness that set in, and ultimately what it means to be a daughter and a mother. Finally, Emma allows herself to explore what she couldn’t while she was growing up: the question of who her mother really was.

‘This honest, insightful book is a touching tribute to her complex, inimitable mother’ Daily Express
‘Remarkable’ Dawn French
‘A beautiful, hilarious and bittersweet book’ Mel Giedroyc

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Reviews

Mel Giedroyc
A beautiful, hilarious and bittersweet book
Marian Keyes
Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It's a lovely LOVELY book
Sue Perkins
A very personal and poignant detective story
Sara Cox
This book made me cry
Dawn French
Remarkable
Emma Freud
Absolutely stunning
Alice Arnold
Absolutely riveting
Daily Express
This honest, insightful book is a touching tribute to her complex, inimitable mother
Times Literary Supplement
A moving study in how to love an unreasonable person