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Perfect Daughter

Perfect Daughter

Contemporary LiteratureDrama
Pages
352
Published
2015
Language
English

Synopsis

Jackie loves her family — her sometimes-stroppy teenagers, her easygoing husband, and the mother she now cares for around the clock as Alzheimer's disease takes hold. In their cramped but cosy semi overlooking the sea in Weston-super-Mare, she has quietly set aside her own ambitions for a career and a life beyond her hometown. All she wants is for her children, especially her eldest daughter Martha, to have the future she gave up. Moving between the present day and events nineteen years earlier, Perfect Daughter is the first book in Amanda Prowse's No Greater Strength series — a story about the sacrifices women make for the people they love, and what it costs when it all becomes too much.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

EmotionalSadTense
Family SagaSacrifice

Genres

Contemporary Literature Drama Women's Fiction

About the author

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Amanda Prowse

Amanda Prowse is a British author of contemporary fiction focused on family dynamics and emotional resilience. Dubbed "the queen of family drama" by the Daily Mail, she began writing in her mid-forties after a career in management consulting, and has since published dozens of novels and novellas, including Perfect Daughter, My Husband's Wife, Another Love and A Mother's Story, which won the Sainsbury's eBook of the Year Award. She is published by Lake Union and divides her time between London an...

Characters

GinaSupporting

Jacks's best friend

All characters in Perfect Daughter

Frequently asked questions

  • Is Perfect Daughter part of a series?

    Yes — Perfect Daughter is the first book in Amanda Prowse's "No Greater Strength" collection, a set of standalone emotional family dramas that includes The Second Chance Café, Three-and-a-Half Heartbeats, Another Love and My Husband's Wife. Each book tells a complete, self-contained story, so they can be read in any order.

  • Where is Perfect Daughter set?

    The novel is set in Weston-super-Mare, a real seaside town in Somerset, England, where protagonist Jackie ("Jacks") Morgan lives with her family in a small terrace house near the sea.

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