Her Mother's Daughter by Linda Carroll

Her Mother's Daughter by Linda Carroll

The daughter of esteemed writer Paula Fox and the mother of Courtney Love relates the curse of the first-born daughter that has haunted four generations of her family

As an adopted child, Linda Carroll created a magical world of her own, made up of dramatic adventures and the abiding fantasy that her real mother would come and take her away. When she finds herself pregnant at the age of eighteen, she is determined to have the perfect understanding with her child that she lacked with her adoptive mother. But readers will know better, for that baby grows up to be Courtney Love, desperately attention-seeking, deeply troubled, and one of the most talented women in rock.
Even as a baby, Courtney is beset by mood swings that no doctor can explain or cure. Her dark moods and paranoia escalate as she grows up, driving mother and daughter apart. When Courtney has a daughter of her own, Linda finally decides to find her own biological mother, and end the estrangement of generations of first-born daughters.
Her Mother's Daughter is Linda Carroll's story of self-discovery as an adopted daughter, a childlike hippie mother, and a woman determined to find herself before finding her roots. Set apart from the typical celebrity memoir by Carroll's gifted storytelling, Her Mother's Daughter gives a fresh perspective on the elusive yet enduring connections between mothers and daughters, and reveals the true history of the wildly confabulatory Courtney Love.

Linda Carroll has mastered the skill of making complex subjects amusing and accessible for the average reader over the course of her two decades as a nationally known health and fitness writer. She has contributed to The New York Times, SmartMoney, Health, and MSNBC.com, among other notable sites. She is currently a contract writer for NBC News, where she covers health and business. Carroll is a seasoned equestrian with over thirty years of experience raising, training, and showing horses. She has owned and controlled Fiery Run Farm for the past two decades, where she has complete control over the breeding and training of her twelve Arabian and Oldenburg sport horses. FieryRunFarm.com is the farm's website for further information.