Clear-eyed, touching, forthright and funny, In My Mother’s Shoes is Alison Walsh’s delightful account of three generations of mothers – 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
‘Honest and immensely readable … many mothers will find themselves nodding along in recognition. I will be passing it on and – more tellingly – looking for it back’ Sunday Business Post
‘Yay for Alison Walsh! … An adroit, and honest, account of having babies (in the UK and Ireland), of bringing up babies (ditto), of being a Celtic Tiger mum, working all the hours God sends, to being a-stay-at-home mum, plus all the messy compromises in between’ Sunday Independent
