Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love - Hardcover

Carroll, Linda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385512473 ISBN 13: 9780385512473

Publisher: Doubleday, 2006

Synopsis

The biological daughter of writer Paula Fox and mother of rock singer Courtney Love describes growing up as an adoptee, her search for her birth mother, and her relationship with her own troubled daughter.

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Review:

Advance Praise for Her Mother's Daughter

"There is a delicious fictional quality to this true-life story that I found riveting. In Carroll's deft telling, the book is a kind of resurrection of a family . . . I think I loved Her Mother's Daughter most for the devotion that Linda Carroll has for her unusual family through decades of separations and unconventional journeys."
--Terry Ryan, author of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

"Looking backward and forward in time, this haunting memoir tells the story of a young woman's journey to finding herself, her birth mother, and her daughter, Courtney Love. The candor and power of these pages illuminates the difficulties of all mother-daughter relationships, but offers a rare glimpse into that elemental relationship when it is shadowed by the temperamental features of early-onset bipolar disorder. Linda Carroll has grit and grace, and writes like her mother's daughter."
--Demitri F. Papolos, M.D., and Janice Papolos, authors of The Bipolar Child

About the Author:

LINDA CARROLL was adopted at birth, raised in San Francisco, and only later discovered that her biological mother is the writer Paula Fox. Married at eighteen, and twice more before she was thirty, she is now the mother of five grown children, including singer/songwriter Courtney Love. She is a therapist and writer and lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with her husband of seventeen years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0385512473
• ISBN 13: 9780385512473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 303