Too Many Mothers: An East End Childhood (by Roberta Taylor)

• 2005 edition,  245 pages
• Published by Atlantic Books
• Paperback
• Very good condition

In this remarkable memoir, Roberta Taylor tells the story of her early life and the extended family that brought her up.

  Too Many Mothers is a portrait of an embattled family at war with itself and the outside world.  From petty crime to pet monkeys. tender romance to emotional blackmail, illegitimacy, adoption and even murder, Roberta Taylor travelled to the emotional heart of her childhood and returned with a bittersweet memoir, as darkly funny as it is poignant.