Her Mother's Hope,
Francine Rivers
I picked this one up at a rummage sale along with its sequel---SCORE! I really enjoy Francine Rivers' writing. She seems to really research before writing her stories and I think I have enjoyed each one so far.
This story is a generational series, starting with a young girl who is abused and controlled by her father, who seeks to enslave her to keep his business going, but she has other plans, and she leaves and ends up travelling through Europe and settling in America.
Eventually she marries and has children, and in order to keep something she feels was a terrible mistake from happening to one of her children who she considers weak, she goes overboard in her tough-it-out attitude towards her child, and becomes unknowingly like her own father in some ways.
The second half of the book is about her daughter, who doesn't understand why her mother has always hated her, and her struggles she has to overcome .
It is based on Rivers' own family, the division she saw but could never understand between her own mother and grandmother.
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