Lucy Blake

Home Truths (eBook, ePUB)

The Facts and Fictions of Family Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Previously published as No Family is Perfect.

'Provides a fresh context for exploring issues that engage us throughout our lives ... It will change how we think and write about families' Terri Apter, author of Difficult Mothers and The Sister Knot

What makes a good parent?

How can sibling relationships survive to adulthood?

Should familial love really be unconditional?

Dr Lucy Blake looks at how the expectations we have affect and hinder our interactions with family members. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of family members of all backgrounds she explores the unrealistic ideas many of us have. Exposing the truth of what a family really is, Blake explores how to better understand and appreciate our loved ones, whether we choose to do so from up close or from a distance.

Home Truths is a fascinating examination of the messy and beautiful reality of family life.

'Blake examines the many aspects of family life and addresses the many ways that family relationships can be strained ... This book will be helpful to anyone interested in learning more about their own families' Dr Joshua Coleman, Council on Contemporary Families

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781802797961
• Artikelnr.: 68535298

Autorenporträt

Lucy Blake

Rezensionen

'Blake examines many aspects of family life and addresses many ways that family relationships can be close or strained ... This book will be helpful to anyone interested in learning more about their own families. I highly recommend it' Dr Joshua Coleman, Council on Contemporary Families