Things I Want My Daughters To Know - Elizabeth Noble

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Title: Things I Want My Daughters To Know
Author: Elizabeth Noble
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 437
Date read: April, 2012

How do you cope in a world without your mother?

When Barbara realizes time is running out, she writes letters to her four daughters, aware that they'll be facing the trials and triumphs of life without her at their side. But how can she leave them when they still have so much growing up to do?

Take Lisa, in her midthirties but incapable of making a commitment; or Jennifer, trapped in a stale marriage and buttoned up so tight she could burst. Twentysomething Amanda, the traveler, has always distanced herself from the rest of the family; and then there's Hannah, a teenage girl on the verge of womanhood about to be parted from the mother she adores.

Chick-lit with substance. I enjoyed this a lot more than I had expected to. It was sad - it couldn't not be with a mother dying of cancer on the very first pages - but not hopelessly so, and it had a general message of hope and that it is possible to move on, even if it may seem impossible at first.

I think what I most liked about this book is that it was REAL. Real people with real issues - I could relate to them, and loved reading about 4 sisters who seem as close as my sisters and I are. They might drive each other crazy at times, but they were always there for each other when the world was against them. Also, people didn't give up when relationships got hard, but worked through it.

A hopeful book. I liked it very much.