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020			_a9781646635078 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1646635078 _q(hardcover)
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092			_aSIMMONS, D. _bS592
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100	1		_aSimmons, Diane Danvers, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMy mother next door / _cby Diane Danvers Simmons.
264		1	_aVirginia Beach, VA : _bKöehlerbooks, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2021.
300			_a186 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aIt's hardly newsworthy when a man walks out on his family. But it's rather unusual for a mother to walk out, leaving the father to bring up their sixteen-year-old daughter-and downright scandalous for said Irish Catholic mother to move into the house next door to start a new life with a bunch of hot male students at the age of sixty. No one can accuse Diane Danvers Simmons of telling a familiar story. Instead she offers a wickedly witty, candid, irreverent, British coming-of-age story with a fresh take on maternal abandonment. In My Mother Next Door she shares the life lessons learned growing up in the revolutionary 1970s while her narcissistic mother charted her own unfathomable course to independence and freedom. After living in America for decades and becoming a mother herself, Diane journeys back through the madness of her early years, coming to terms with a comical, painful family history, but also celebrating the strength and humor it has given her to face the absurdity of life. In trying to understand what drove her mother to become the woman next door, Diane discovers new respect, love, and even forgiveness: the root of our humanity.
600	1	0	_aSimmons, Diane Danvers.
650		0	_aMothers and daughters _zGreat Britain.
650		0	_aChildren of single parents _zGreat Britain _vBiography.
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
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