Mother Can You Hear Me?

Angela Bradbury's 'Poor Mother' : delicate humble permanently disappointed has made endless sacrifices for her family for which they can never quite be grateful enough. 'You can't please your mother' as her father says. Even now just one phone call from Mother can send Angela spiralling into guilt self-recrimination and doubts over her own abilities as a mother. Worryingly Angela's relationship with her own daughter Sadie seems to be going the same way as Sadie develops into a sullen unresponsive adolescent. It seems that motherhood is a heritage of disappointments and broken promises. But Angela is determined that somehow her relationship with Sadie will be different.