Memoirs Of A Not So Dutiful Daughter

byJenni Murray

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The only child of an electrical engineer and a mother who resented the fact that she'd never been to university, the broadcaster Jenni Murray grew up in a traditional household in the 1950s. But instead of becoming the conventional housewife her mother expected her to be, Jenni opted to forge her own path in both her career and her personal life.

The resulting tensions lasted as long as Jenni could remember. How, she often wondered, could two women be so close, so full of love for each other, and at the same time so full of hate that they broke each other's hearts?

And so Jenni began her remarkable memoir - and continued to write as her mother lay dying, and Jenni struggled to care for her and her beloved father while herself being treated for breast cancer.

Filled with love and laughter, frustration and heartbreak, and with the courage 'to keep on keeping on' even in the darkest days, Jenni Murray's memoir will speak to every mother and daughter, dutiful or not.

She is not just the voice of Radio 4's Woman's Hour...She IS Woman's Hour.

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About Jenni Murray

Jenni Murray was a journalist and broadcaster who presented BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour from 1987 to 2020. She was the author of several books and wrote a weekly column in the Daily Mail. She lived in north London and the New Forest. Jenni died in March 2026 aged seventy-five.
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  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • ISBN: 9781407040042
  • Length: 336 pages
  • Price: £5.99
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