Home Truths, the first book of its kind, focuses on single mothers and explores their lives, with their attendant dilemmas and challenges. The author details a phenomenon that is fast becoming common. Deftly using a free-flowing narrative, she raises questions about marriage, children and relationships. In the vast canvas that the author explores are the stories of seventeen ‘single mothers’ – women rearing their children outside the ‘normal’ structure of marriage – who may be divorced, widowed, separated or unmarried. Through their radically different personal histories, which are usually unheard, they challenge received knowledge and subvert entrenched patriarchies, and emerge as quintessential survivors. Being ordinary women with extraordinary courage, they challenge the dichotomy between home and world, women and men, emotion and rationality. Lucid and forthright, this seminal work draws attention to ‘truths’ that usually lie buried in the nibble of daily life and conventional social sciences. It vides insight into silence and dissent, sexuality, motherhood, rights and responsibilities. A must for those interested in gender issues, family and women’s studies. Home Truths is refreshingly unusual, with ‘truths’ relevant to all of us – mothers or not, single or not, women or not.
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