Chocolate Was Her Way: A Memoir About The Days That Changed My Life

The emotional honesty of this hearfelt memoir describes the event that shaped her life, starting with the shame of being an unwed mother in 1966, the secrecy involved and the inability to discuss the situation openly with family and friends. This result in being hidden the basement for the duration of her pregnancy and the feelings of helplessness when forced to give her daughter up for adoption and her struggle to re-establish a sense of self worth. The memoir then skips forward to the ensuing twenty-seven years and opens with the discovery of being sterile, causing her to reflect on her lost daughter and seek counselling and facing many issues in an attempt to resolve the painful experiences of her past. Transformation begins with facing the vulnerability of going public with her secret past.

• | Author: Margaret Mott
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jan 30, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 372 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1545487308
• | ISBN-13: 9781545487303