27 Letters to my Daughter
Not many people write hilariously and beautifully about something really intense and life altering. [This book] takes you all the way from heartbreak to hilarity - it will be your best friend for a while.
- Martha Beck, New York Times bestselling author of The Way of Integrity.
This is a story of what we inherit, and how we become ourselves. This is the story of a family - a glorious, funny, exotic and gutsy family - but it's really a story about how your attitude to life, can shape your life. A time-travelling memoir from one mother, and the generations that came before her - these are twenty-seven letters about the good, the bad, the magical and the whole damn thing.
Ella’s writing provokes an aching nostalgia for parties, dancing, homes and travel. Reading it I find myself nostalgic for someone else’s childhood and youth. But the genius of this book is that it makes you feel like there might still be time to create this in your own life. While there’s life there’s hope.
- Jessica Dettmann, author of How to be Second Best and Without Further Ado.
When death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to her daughter.
Often funny, and moving, but always haunted by the shadow of mortality … it reads like a message in a bottle … easy, flowing epistolary story-telling that takes in the generations that have preceded mother and child, a central tenet being that we are the sum of all we are now as well as the ghostly past of our forebears.
- The Sydney Morning Herald
Everyone has an incredible story to tell: this book will teach you how to share yours.