Reading Jane: A Daughter's Memoir by Susannah Kennedy

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reading Jane: A Daughter's Memoir Author: Susannah Kennedy Narrator: Marnye Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A gripping memoir that shows what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable past Jane is to the world a charismatic personality—opinionated, an inner-city teacher and public activist, a lover of Italy, proud and successful—who thrives on a carefully crafted life narrative. Susannah, her beautiful only daughter and her intended protégé, senses the stricter, darker truth, and fights to resist the control imposed on her by her mother's narcissistic tale, especially as Susannah becomes a mother herself. But then Jane at seventy-five, healthy and fit, chooses suicide, leaving her daughter with grief and the unwelcome gift of forty-five years of hidden diaries. Daring to 'read' Jane after her death is like unlatching Pandora's Box. For a year, Susannah twists and turns to the truths she uncovers, comparing what she remembers with what her mother put down in words. As Susannah Kennedy relives her life through her mother's eyes, she grapples with the ties between mothers and daughters and the choices parents make.