The nature or nurture dilemma is brought to the fore in the exploration of a mother’s instinct and what it means to be a mother. The present-day is interwoven with significant events in the past so that the reader is left to interpret the connections and influences across the generations and to search for clues in the past for what was unfolding in the present. This gripping tale is told by Blythe, narrator and main character, who makes it clear right from the beginning that there is more than one side to the story. Read some great reviews from our Preview readers here: Angel or monster? We don’t get to choose our inheritance – or who we are. But what if that’s not enough for Violet? Or her marriage? What if she can’t see the darkness coming? And he can’t understand what Blythe suffered as a child. Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining it. Soon Blythe believes she can do no right – that something’s very wrong. All the love that her own mother withheld.But firstborns are never easy. Violet is her first child and she will give her daughter all the love she deserves. ’īlythe Connor doesn’t want history to repeat itself. ‘The women in this family, we’re different. What happens when your experience of motherhood is nothing at all what you hoped for, but everything you always feared?
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