Letter to My Daughter
  • Published: 15 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9780345515995
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $29.99
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Letter to My Daughter

A Novel

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The debut that Pat Conroy hailed as "a first novel of immense power" about mothers, daughters, and the lessons we all learn when we come of age--for fans of Nicholas Sparks.

A fight, ended by a slap, sends Elizabeth out the door of her Baton Rouge home on the eve of her fifteenth birthday. Her mother, Laura, is left to fret and worry—and remember. Wracked with guilt as she awaits Liz’s return, Laura begins a letter to her daughter, hoping to convey “everything I’ve always meant to tell you but never have.” In her painfully candid confession, Laura shares memories of her own troubled adolescence in rural Louisiana, her bittersweet relationship with a boy she loved despite her parents’ disapproval, and a personal tragedy that she can never forget. An absorbing and affirming debut, Letter to My Daughter is a heartwrenching novel of mothers, daughters, and the lessons we all learn when we come of age.
  • Published: 15 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9780345515995
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

Praise for Letter to My Daughter

  • "Letter to My Daughter...makes George Bishop a novelist to keep your eye on. As a father of five daughters, reading the book made me wish I'd written a letter to my own girls, describing my own failures and dilemmas as an American teenager." --Pat Conroy, bestselling author of South of Broad
  • "Guaranteed to keep the tears flowing...destined to be a popular choice for the Nicholas Sparks crowd." --Booklist
  • "[Readers] will find much to enjoy as Bishop brings alive an independent, fearless young Laura." --Library Journal
  • "Bishop's debut novel will tear at your heartstrings, giving an amazing insight into the difficult lessons and tribulations of adolescence, particularly among women." --Advertiser (Lafayette, LA)
  • "Perhaps the most amazing aspect of this debut novel is the fact that the author is a man who never married or became a parent. That he could have such a clear understanding of the sometimes difficult mother-daughter relationship is quite unique." --Bookreporter.com
  • "Sweet and poignant...an elegant and heartwarming novel." --Bookloons.com