Terrible Daughters

Why is the relationship between mother and daughter considered the most complex and contradictory in our culture? Where does the feeling of guilt, eternal obligation, and unspoken anger, familiar to thousands of women around the world, come from?

Journalist Blanca Lacasa Carralon, inspired by the shocking similarity of her own experience to the stories of friends, decided to break the main family taboo - the law of silence.

«Terrible Daughters» is not just a collection of personal testimonies. It is a deep exploration of the mechanisms that turn love into dependency and care into a lifelong obligation. Relying on interviews with psychologists, sociologists, and historians, as well as examples from world cinema and literature, Carralon dissects the myths of «holy motherhood» and shows how culture creates labels of «bad daughter» and «toxic mother».

This book is an attempt to break out of the vicious circle of accusations and social expectations, to see the ordinary woman behind the figure of the mother, and finally gain the right to one’s own separate life.