THE PRIZE-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ?I can't help but be moved by a story about women
meeting fighting helping each other looking after one another and raising their voices
against the prejudice and criticism they are subject to.' Cho Nam-joo author of Kim Jiyoung
Born 1982 When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment she
wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income and even
better a good husband with a good job with whom to start a family. But when Green turns up
with her girlfriend Lane in tow her mother is unprepared and unwilling to welcome Lane into
her home. In fact she can barely bring herself to be civil. Having centred her life on her
husband and child her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept. Her
daughter's involvement in a case of unfair dismissal involving gay colleagues from the
university where she works is similarly strange to her. And yet when the care home where she
works insists that she lower her standard of care for an elderly dementia patient who has no
family who travelled the world as a successful diplomat who chose not to have children
Green's mother cannot accept it. Why should not having chosen a traditional life mean that your
life is worth nothing at all? In Concerning My Daughter translated from Korean by Jamie Chang
Kim Hye-jin lays bare our most universal fears on ageing death and isolation to offer finally
a paean to love in all its forms.
