Away from my mother

Title: Away from my mother

Author: E. Ten Bruggencate

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789059118485

Condition: Good

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Description:

Was the mother a mother? Was the heroine a heroine? Who was and was against whom in resistance? What a beautiful, painful, honest story about a mother, a daughter and the war.

At the cremation of Lies Verbeek, her youngest daughter Puck meets an old resistance comrade of her mother. The woman reveals a number of sensational facts about Lies, who was a courier for Vrij Nederland and Trouw during the Beletting. Puck is devastated. Was this her cold, silent mother, the hard-working pediatrician from whom she begged in vain for attention all her life? What did she actually know about this woman? Puck goes in search of answers. In search of the woman who was her mother―in search of the secrets … of her own youth.

Ellen ten Bruggencate (1955, Rotterdam) grew up at eight in the pink outer walls of her parental home in the affluent, leafy Kralingen' where little of the 'destroyed city' was noticeable - except for the coldness you would expect from a place without a heart. In her debut - an autobiographical novel - she tells about her youth and life, determined by the war of and with her mother.

Ellen writes daily on her blog vert-el-sels.blogspot.com