When You and Your Mother Can't be Friends

For many adult daughters, there is something about the painful mother-daughter relationship that can linger with punishing tenacity. Bright, sensitive, competent women can be haunted by their childhood memories - and find to their horror that they replay, possibly in a different way, the relationship in bringing up their own daughters. Based on extensive research and interviews, this book aims to show how daughters can understand - and resolve - what is perhaps the most complicated relationship of their lives.