Mother's Voice

By Louisa Micallef

Rosemary has made a mistake. She had a baby. Willingly. If only she could return the baby and get her life back.Lying on an operating table for a C-section she didn't want, Rosemary waits for it to happen. The overwhelming and powerful feeling of love a mother is supposed to feel when she first meets her child. Instead she feels dead inside. Empty. Devoid of any love.Suddenly everything has changed. Rosemary is catapulted into a world she is unprepared for and doesn't understand. Postpartum anger and depression.Finding herself navigating through a nightmare reality she could have never anticipated, Rosemary doesn't recognize herself amidst the anger, sadness and anxiety that have taken hold of her. Challenged by her demanding and suffocating Italian mother-in-law who treats her son like a prince and thinks a baby sleeping on their stomach is safe, Rosemary learns that the only way she can move forward is to find her own powerful voice and identity as a mother. Will Rosemary be able to define what motherhood means to her? Can she move past the unrealistic family and personal expectations she faces? Will her fellow mothers help her or be ready to judge everything she does? Rosemary knows she must explore the layered and complex relationships she has with others, as well as the one she has with herself, in order to heal and become the mother she has always wanted to be.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1696794838
• ISBN13: 9781696794831
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"