My Mother My Writing and Me (Shelfworn) by Iola Mathews

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206mm x 137mm x 22mm

Pages: 286

Product Description
Iola Mathews explores a dilemma familiar to many women - how to nurture your own needs and creativity without neglecting your responsibility to the people you love. This brave and honest memoir explores many of the issues facing women in their fifties and the transition towards peace and fulfilment. 'My life was stalled, like a train carriage shunted into a siding. I wanted to write about my early life in Paris but I was afraid. Most of the time I was looking after my elderly mother who was unwell, and now my daughter was expecting a baby and would need me too. I felt trapped...'
Review
A courageous and thoughtful book - one where the author confronts her own mortality and the mortality of her ageing mother, while at the same time grappling with an intense desire to return to her writing. Iola Mathews brings humour and rich wisdom to famililar but painful situations.' --Anne Deveson AO

My Mother My Writing and Me touches upon universal themes that affect us all as we get older, such as a loss of identity, dependence and above all, the search for an authentic life. Iola Mathews invites us to reflect on what might be our avenue to seek a sense of fulfilment as we age and yet paradoxically accept our own demise. --Dr Peter O'Connor
About the Author
Iola Mathews is a former 'Age' journalist and the author of 'How to use the media in Australia.' She also worked at the Australian Council for Trade Unions as an industrial officer and advocate specialising in women's employment, for which she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal. Later she worked in the corporate sector. Since returning to writing she has helped to establish writers' studios in the National Trust propertly 'Glenfern' in East St Kilda.