‘Combining meticulous research with a deeply personal approach, Kirsty Bell’s Mother’s Mother is a beautifully moving and inspiring engagement with female identity and the ways it is defined by what is passed on from mother to daughter, through the generations. Both the personal story and the tapestry of historical detail make it a truly spellbinding read.’

– Esther Kinsky, author of Seeing Further

‘Mother’s Mother takes up some of the watery metaphors of The Undercurrents and is a delicious continuation of Bell’s infectious writing, this time in search of her Scottish maternal line. It is fascinating to watch a writer coax so much from such scant evidence. I want to read everything Kirsty Bell writes.’

– Moyra Davey, author of Index Cards