La figlia oscura
About this book
Leda is a middle-aged, divorced mother devoted to her work as an English professor. After the departure of her grown-up daughters, she takes a holiday on the Italian coast. But after a few days things become unsettling; on the beach she encounters a family whose brash behaviour proves menacing. Leda is overwhelmed by memories of the difficult and unconventional choices she made as a mother and their consequences for herself and her family. The tale of a woman's rediscovery of herself soon becomes the story of a ferocious confrontation with the past. The Lost Daughter is a profound exploration of the conflicting emotions that tie women to their children.
Subjects
- divorced people, fiction
- divorced women
- divorciadas
- empty nesters
- ficción
- fiction
- fiction, family life
- general
- madre e hija
- motherhood
- mothers and daughters
- mothers and daughters, fiction
- romance literature