a mother's love

Best-selling author Gretel Killeen turns real-life inspiration into a poignant, moving and hilarious exploration of mother-daughter relationships

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Mothers, daughters and the ties that bind them have long been fertile ground for storytellers. Throw nuptials into the mix, as Gretel Killeen does in My Daughter’s Wedding, and you can only be certain of one thing – the path to true love, in all its guises, never runs smoothly.

Billed as a ‘heart-aching comedy’, the diary-style novel finds its voice in Nora, a middle-aged mum who’s daughter Hope cut off all contact four years ago – no warning, no explanation. Then one day, she calls: “I’m coming home, I’m getting married, the wedding is in three weeks and it’s your job to organise it”. So begins a hi-jinxed journey to “I do”.

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