ISBN: 9781900512855

Synopsis How To Manage Your Mother" contains over 100 extensive interviews withharacters as diverse as a circus lion tamer, a New York cab driver, aransvestite model and well-known figures from politics and the entertainmentndustry, including Michael Palin, John Cleese, General Colin More… Powell, Tomelleck and Michael Winner. They all talk movingly and honestly about theirelationship with their mother, from that first memory in the pram through tostablishing an adult relationship and to dealing with terminal illness oreath.;This book is one of the first to confront adults’ relationships withheir mothers, and does so by drawing on the memories and emotions of thenterviewees to analyse the archetypal secret lives of mothers. By enablinghe readers to understand their mother, and come to terms with her, this booknables them to come to terms with themselves. Chapters stretch from babyhood’First memories: mother as goddess’) to adolescence (‘The red dress: seeinghe world through our mother’s eyes’) and to full adulthood (’Expectations’nd ‘Mother love’). Written throughout in non-technical language.