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The Dressmaker's Daughter
Paperback
Biographies GeneralDeath & Dying
Publisher Price: $14.99
ISBN13: 9781836883890
Publisher: Independent Publishing Network
Published: Jun 20 2025
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.09
Language: English
Some losses don't just break you-they take you apart, piece by piece, until you
are no longer the person you once were. On July 7, 2005, Azuma Wundowa's life
crumbled when her mother boarded a bus in London and never came home.
That summer, at sixteen, Azuma was gleefully waiting for concert tickets to arrive and
enjoying life as it was. But then her mother went missing amidst one of the most
devastating tragedies in London-the 7/7 bombings. It didn't make any sense: one
day, she was making tea with her mother in their kitchen; the next, she was staring out
the window, waiting for someone who would never return.
When her father uttered the piercing words, The police have come to say they found
mummy. She is dead, her world disintegrated. Her mother, the very definition of
strength, was among the 52 victims of the bombings, one of those on bus 30.
The Dressmaker's Daughter takes you through the rawness and aftermath of grief
and loss. From subsequently losing her home and a challenged relationship with her
father to waking up years later from a vivid dream of taking her mother to a spa-only
to be gut-punched by reality-Azuma captures the jagged edges of life when the
world stops for you but continues for everyone else.
This book is about how trauma lingers in the mundane-how a simple Mother's Day
card in a store can cut like a knife-and, most importantly, how you can find your
own version of healing, even when it feels like nothing but a distant wish.
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