Letters of Note: Mothers
By Shaun Usher.
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“One has to learn how to distinguish real gold from tinsel. It is hard because tinsel sometimes glitters so dazzlingly”.
In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and to mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour and frustration, wisdom and sacrifice the role brings to both parent and child.
This is a short collection of letters written to individual mothers. The book discusses topics that are quite raw but are refreshing to hear. As someone who has no relationship with a mother, I found some of the letters full of wisdom and quite inspiring.
My favourite letters from the collection are:
Letter 18 - THE STORY COMES FROM WITHIN YOU Laura Dern to Jaya Dern
Letter 21 - LIVE A LIFE WORTH LIVING Julie Yip-Williams to Mia and Isabelle
Letter 27 - I LOVE HER MORE THAN ANYTHING Martha Gellhorn to Lucy Moorehead 1970
I’ve got a few more of these collections from Shaun Usher so I’m looking forward to embarking on these reads!
Buy the book from a local, independent bookshop here.
