This is my Daughter by Roxana Robinson

This is my Daughter

Roxana Robinson

Not my usual choice, but I did find it all too easy to sympathise with both stepmother and stepdaughter. I would have shot the father, however.

Extract
She should have remembered that Amanda hated grapefruit. Now, of course, she did: she could see vividly Amanda's familiar grimace at the word.
Parallels
  • Goggle-eyes by Anne Fine
  • North and South by Mrs Gaskell
  • Gaglow by Esther Freud