{"product_id":"in-my-mothers-shoes-1","title":"IN MY MOTHERS SHOES","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e`Over the last three years, since I left the office, clutching my department store voucher and bouquet of flowers, I have had ample time to ponder, in snatched moments, why I’ve chosen this life. And, why in the 21st century, I am doing more or less the same things as my mother and grandmother did before me. As I learn more about myself as a mother, I’ve begun to want to understand them better, now that I am in their shoes.` Thus Alison Walsh ponders her escape from the 9-5 office life she juggled with mothering her three children to embrace the freelance life, which - in theory - would enable her to become the Best Mother in the World. In reality, though, she – like so many of us – finds herself patching life – and motherhood - together as she goes along. Like her mother and her grandmother, she is, in the end, just a mother, with flaws aplenty. Clear-eyed, touching, forthright and funny, In My Mother`s Shoes is her account of three generations of Irish motherhood – her Nana, leading light of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association, indomitable in all things except deferring to her husband; her mother, whose glamorous career as a 1960s air hostess was cut cruelly short by the simple act of getting married; and Alison herself, a modern woman whose life would not be thwarted by such lack of choice. Or would it? `Cheerful, intelligent, funny and shockingly sensible... Buy it. Read it. Pass it on` Judith O`Reilly, author of Wife in the North\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Readers Paradise Book Shop Wexford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48641056473435,"sku":"","price":4.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/files\/17_8d13e65f-a55f-4629-9e95-ef0498f610da.jpg?v=1720534383","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.pro\/products\/in-my-mothers-shoes-1","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}