{"product_id":"9781481796491","title":"Things My MotherS Never Told Me","description":"‘I’m six years old and having a life crisis.’ Are you my mummy?’ is the question I could never ask because I love both my mothers equally: Tyna, the tiny one and Bigga, who is bigger. I haven’t got a daddy either, and it seems rude to ask’.  This is a sharp and entertaining true story, beginning in war-torn London, of how the author navigated her way through family passions and oddities, secrets and multiple identities. On the way she encounters a Christmas pudding sent annually care of the Bank of Scotland; sitting on a Tutor’s cat during a Cambridge University interview; running the family corner shop as a school girl; discovering a cache of beautiful postcards from all over Europe; and the seaside wedding of one of her mothers.  ‘One of my mothers is has yet another stroke.  I’m by her side when the consultant points to a scar on her belly and asks her what it is. Silently she raises her hand and gestures towards me. A Caesarean section all those years ago. I am her daughter. We never speak of it’. ‘After Bigga and Tyna died, I begin a paper trail to find news of my father.  One morning I walk across Westminster Bridge to meet a half-sister. I have been an only child for 50 years.  Over lunch I discover that I am the sixth of seven siblings born to four women - and I have a famous Swiss grandfather’.  The book ends by tackling some questions I’m often asked, such as: Were your mothers lesbians? Does a child need a father? Is the past good for you? Do therapists help?’","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183069053168,"sku":"9781481796491","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781481796491_p0.jpg?v=1763624447","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781481796491","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}