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Things I Want My Daughters to Know
Things I Want My Daughters to Know
Dec 31, 2025 5:49 PM

Author:Elizabeth Noble

Things I Want My Daughters to Know

'Honest and beautifully written' Woman & Home

The heartwarming classic about love and family from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Love, Iris will make you both laugh and cry.

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How would you say goodbye to those you love most in the world?

it's time for Barbara to say a final farewell to her four daughters. But how can she find the words? And how can she leave them when they each have so much growing up to do?

There's commitment-phobic Lisa. Brittle, unhappily married Jennifer. Free-spirited traveller Amanda. And teenage Hannah, stumbling her way towards adulthood.

Barbara's answer is to write each daughter a letter, finally expressing the hopes, fears, dreams and secrets she couldn't always say.

These words will touch the girls in different - sometimes shocking - ways, unlocking emotions and passions to set them on their own journey of discovery through life.

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'Enchantingly clever. I cried, I laughed, I couldn't put it down' Penny Vincenzi

'Irresistible' Glamour

Reviews

Enchantingly clever. I cried, I laughed, I couldn't put it down

—— Penny Vincenzi

Her stories strike a genuine chord . . . an irresistible comfort read

—— Glamour

Honest and beautifully written

—— Woman & Home

It would be a hard heart indeed that remained unmoved . . . the tender feelings Noble engenders in her readers are to be cherished

—— Daily Express

Incredibly thought-provoking and poignant

—— Sun

This powerful tale packs an emotional punch

—— Closer

An emotional rollercoaster

—— Now

A journey through emotionally-charged mother-daughter territory . . . it may just kickstart the practice of letter-writing again

—— Good Housekeeping

Praise for Elizabeth Noble

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Noble is the mistress of the tearjerking message of love

—— Express

A wonderfully well-written book, full of emotion

—— Daily Mail

Deliciously readable

—— Times

Impossible to finish without tears streaming down your face

—— Daily Express

Witty, affectionate and unashamedly tear-jerking

—— Red

Witty, pacy and immediately engaging

—— Glamour

So fluid, the pages turn themselves

—— Daily Mirror

Tissues are essential. You'll ricochet between delicately watering eyes at the romance of it all and howling sobs at the unbearable tendernes

—— Heat

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

—— Arabella Weir

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

—— Hugh Laurie

The greatest comic writer ever

—— Douglas Adams

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

—— Sebastian Faulks

Sublime comic genius

—— Ben Elton

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour

—— Stephen Fry

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour

—— Stephen Fry
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