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Mother Can You Hear Me? by Margaret Forster, first published in 1979, encapsulates the often fraught and complicated relationship between a mother and daughter.

Angela Bradbury has an appalling mother, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, expert at emotional blackmail. But in her relationship with her eldest daughter, Sadie, Angela realises that she is imposing the same resentments and guilt that her mother inflicted on her.