by Stephen Scheding
The Age
July 25, 2009
Following the death of her mother, Anne Summers is bequaethed a painting that depicts her parent, aged 10, in 1933, holding a book titled Alice and the White Rabbit.
And, like Alice who follows the White Rabbit down a hole, Summers begins to follow clues that the painting offers, and finds herself led into worlds she did not know existed.
The title and opening lines suggest this book will be about the author’s relationship with her mother. We learn that an uneasy bond was exacerbated by the publication of Summers’ 1999 autobiography, Ducks on the Pond. The possibility is raised that The Lost Mother will be a quest for atoenment.
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