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<blockquote data-quote="totoro" data-source="post: 114505" data-attributes="member: 3155"><p>They never really say Mental Illness, but the story really hits home on so many levels... I think it would for many of us on the board here... It doesn't get too much into Courtney's life. It is more about Linda's coming of age... a very touching story, written with honesty. </p><p>This is the excerpt from Amazon:</p><p></p><p>"Her Mother's Daughter"</p><p></p><p>By: Linda Carroll</p><p></p><p>A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love</p><p></p><p></p><p>* Despite the suggestive subtitle, Carroll's memoir is far less tell-all than it is her personal recollections of growing up feeling alienated from her adoptive family, her peers, and her religion. Born with an inquisitive mind, Linda has trouble relating to her tightly wound adoptive mother, Louella, and her sexually abusive adoptive father, Jack. While her friendships with other girls are deep and stable, her relationships with men prove to be much more complicated. Carroll finds herself pregnant at 18 by a man she does not love, but she marries him and gives birth to a girl, Courtney. The marriage does not last, and Carroll spends the next decade in search of happiness, marrying twice again and going as far as New Zealand as her relationship with Courtney deteriorates. Years later, when Courtney is pregnant with her own child, Carroll finally seeks her own birth mother and is surprised to discover she is renowned writer Paula Fox. A thoughtful memoir of one woman's coming-of-age in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. </p><p></p><p>Available @ <a href="http://www.amazon.com" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="totoro, post: 114505, member: 3155"] They never really say Mental Illness, but the story really hits home on so many levels... I think it would for many of us on the board here... It doesn't get too much into Courtney's life. It is more about Linda's coming of age... a very touching story, written with honesty. This is the excerpt from Amazon: "Her Mother's Daughter" By: Linda Carroll A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love * Despite the suggestive subtitle, Carroll's memoir is far less tell-all than it is her personal recollections of growing up feeling alienated from her adoptive family, her peers, and her religion. Born with an inquisitive mind, Linda has trouble relating to her tightly wound adoptive mother, Louella, and her sexually abusive adoptive father, Jack. While her friendships with other girls are deep and stable, her relationships with men prove to be much more complicated. Carroll finds herself pregnant at 18 by a man she does not love, but she marries him and gives birth to a girl, Courtney. The marriage does not last, and Carroll spends the next decade in search of happiness, marrying twice again and going as far as New Zealand as her relationship with Courtney deteriorates. Years later, when Courtney is pregnant with her own child, Carroll finally seeks her own birth mother and is surprised to discover she is renowned writer Paula Fox. A thoughtful memoir of one woman's coming-of-age in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Available @ [url="http://www.amazon.com"]http://www.amazon.com[/url] [/QUOTE]
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