# Reading Jane

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- Book: [Reading Jane](https://www.bookquiver.com/susannah-kennedy/reading-jane) ([Reading Jane.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/susannah-kennedy/reading-jane.md))
- Authors: [Susannah Kennedy](https://www.bookquiver.com/susannah-kennedy)
- Publisher: Sibylline Press
- ISBN: 978-17-3679-547-7
- Pages: 250
- Published: 2023-10-19
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A gripping memoir that shows what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable pastJane is to the world a charismatic personality - opinionated, an inner-city teacher and public activist, a lover of Italy, proud and successful – who thrives on a carefully crafted life narrative. Susannah, her beautiful only daughter and her intended protéeacute; gé, senses the stricter, darker truth, and fights to resist the control imposed on her by her mother's narcissistic tale, especially as Susannah becomes a mother herself. But then Jane at 75, healthy and fit, chooses suicide, leaving her daughter with grief and the unwelcome gift of 45 years of hidden diaries. Daring to " read" Jane after her death is like unlatching Pandora’s Box. For a year, Susannah twists and turns to the truths she uncovers, comparing what she remembers with what her mother put down in words. As Susannah Kennedy re-lives her life through her mother’s eyes, she grapples with the ties between mothers and daughters and the choices parents make.