EPISODE · May 16, 2022 · 5 MIN
27 Letters to My Daughter: a beautiful and heartfelt memoir on how to live by Ella Ward
from Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Mandy Wisoky
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 27 Letters to My Daughter: a beautiful and heartfelt memoir on how to live Author: Ella Ward Narrator: Ella Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to her daughter. Ella Ward comes from a long line of irrepressibly charming raconteurs, letter-writers, storytellers and people who 'quite like giving toasts at parties'. And so, a few years ago, when Ella was 36 years old, with a husband and a young daughter, and was told that she had a rare cancer and might die, she decided that death wasn't going to stand in the way of her mothering her child. As Ella's treatment for her cancer began, she started drafting letters to her daughter. To tell her about life, love, death, the importance of cotton knickers and - above all - her family. The kind of people who weren't dissuaded by little things like cancer. Or war. Or loss. Or a charging elephant. This is a story of what we inherit, and how we become ourselves. This is the story of a family - a glorious, funny, exotic and gutsy family - but it's really a story about how your attitude to life, can shape your life. A time-travelling memoir from one mother, and the generations that came before her - these are twenty-seven letters about the good, the bad, the magical and the whole damn thing. Jaunty, brave, moving and immensely appealing, this is a gloriously endearing inspirational story in the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Lecture ... although with slightly more dry martinis. 'Not many people write hilariously and beautifully about something really intense and life altering. [This book] takes you all the way from heartbreak to hilarity - it will be your best friend for a while.' Martha Beck, New York Times bestselling author of The Way of Integrity
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