With great empathy and sensitive precision, Ingrid Strobl describes how daughters experience the death of their mother. She portrays the complicated and often ambivalent feelings that daughters have towards their mothers, and shows how these feelings, and sometimes the daughters' self-image, change when the mother dies. She speaks of love and anger, familiarity and estrangement, gratitude and disappointment, grief and relief, guilt and longing. A touching and moving book.