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Searching For A Mother's Love
Hardcover
Biographies GeneralGeneral Parenting
ISBN13: 9781918675368
Publisher: Charles Book Publishing
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Anne Torrens was nine years old, she boarded a flight from St Vincent to Heathrow with a stranger as her chaperone, crying for the grandparents who had raised her with warmth and love. The mother waiting for her in England was, in every honest sense, unknown to her - and the home she entered made that distance plain from the start.
In this deeply personal memoir, Torrens traces the full arc of a life built from very little. From an emotionally cold childhood in North London, to the fierce independence of a young woman who left home as soon as she could, to the years of raising three children largely alone - she writes with honesty and clarity about what it means to give love you were never taught to receive.
She earned two university degrees while working and mothering, built a teaching career that spanned more than twenty years, ran a Caribbean food business for seven more, and navigated a marriage that slowly, then suddenly, broke. Through her son's bipolar diagnosis, her daughter's grief, her mother's dementia, and her own collapse and recovery, she kept going - not dramatically, but in the quiet, daily way that resilience actually works.
Searching for a Mother's Love is also a story about late-life flowering: the return to poetry and writing, the discovery of crafting, the learning - hard and slow - to ask for help. It is a memoir for anyone who has felt that the life they were handed was not the one they deserved, and who needed to know that the beginning is not the whole story.
Honest, moving, and ultimately hopeful - this is a life fully told.
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