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The daughter of esteemed writer Paula Fox and the mother of Courtney Love relates "the curse of the first-born daughter" that has haunted four generations of her family.
Doubleday
January 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 0385512473
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
As an adopted child, Linda Carroll created a
magical world of her own, made up of dramatic adventures and
the abiding fantasy that her real mother would come and take
her away. When she finds herself pregnant at the age of
eighteen, she is determined to have the perfect
understanding with her child that she lacked with her
adoptive mother. But readers will know better, for that
baby grows up to be Courtney Love, desperately
attention-seeking, deeply troubled, and one of the most
talented women in rock.
Even as a baby, Courtney is
beset by mood swings that no doctor can explain or cure. Her
dark moods and paranoia escalate as she grows up, driving
mother and daughter apart. When Courtney has a daughter of
her own, Linda finally decides to find her own biological
mother, and end the estrangement of generations of
first-born daughters.
Her Mother's Daughter is Linda
Carroll's story of self-discovery as an adopted daughter, a
childlike hippie mother and a woman determined to find
herself before finding her roots. Set apart from the typical
celebrity memoir by Carroll's gifted storytelling, Her
Mother's Daughter gives a fresh perspective on the elusive
yet enduring connections between mothers and daughters, and
reveals the true history of the wildly confabulatory
Courtney Love.
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