Biography, Autobiography, Memoir discussion

Dear Members,

What makes a memoir unforgettable isn’t just the story it tells, but the way it lingers like a voice you can still hear long after you’ve closed the book. This award-nominated memoir does exactly that.

A Finalist in the Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards (2020), this deeply moving narrative blends family history, generational secrets, and the tender ache of a daughter’s search for truth.

When Sylvia, a mother marked by unspoken pain, faces the end of her life, her daughter an expat in Dubai unravels their complicated relationship. Her journey takes her back through memories both painful and funny, and ultimately to London’s Jewish East End of the 1930s, where the roots of a long-buried tragedy lie.

This is not just a story about a mother and daughter. It’s a story about the silences families carry, about love tested by time, about what happens when pieces of our history are lost and how we find the strength to fill the gaps.

Acclaimed by BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Essex, and Family Tree Magazine, readers and critics alike describe this memoir as “poignant,” “beautifully written,” and “like listening to a friend you know well.”

At its heart, it asks us: Can we truly know our parents? And what do we discover about ourselves when we seek to understand them?

For book clubs like Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, this memoir offers not only a powerful personal story but also the chance for rich conversation around memory, forgiveness, identity, and the legacies we inherit.

This is a book to be felt, shared, and remembered.