Wednesday's Pick!

My Mother's Daughter: A Memoir by Rona Maynard.

How true. Rona Maynard is indeed her mother’s daughter. Fredelle Maynard’s evocative family memoir ‘Raisins and almonds’ is hauntingly echoed in this strong, direct telling of her daughter’s story.

Unflinchingly Rona Maynard, former editor of Chatelaine, ventures into the tale of three generations of strong women and their struggle to live their own lives in troubled circumstances. She reaches back to her maternal grandmother to trace the deep family bonds and failings. She takes us through her unhappy younger life with her sister Joyce in their mother’s forbidding shadow.

Maynard tells her story boldly and brings us forward into the light of her own successful career as an author and editor, and as a loving daughter, wife and mother herself.