MUMMYDADDY

Book ID/图书代码： 00200011B49580

English Summary/英文概要： In the summer of 1992, Jeremy Howe and his wife, Lizzie, were tending to last-minute holiday preparations. Lizzie was leaving to teach at a summer school before she could join Jeremy and their two daughters, Jessica, six and Lucy, four, at the seaside. That night, arriving at his mother’s in Suffolk, Jeremy managed to get the excited girls to go to sleep, irritated that their mother hadn’t called to say goodnight as she had promised. Just after midnight the household was woken by a policeman who had come to tell them that Lizzie was dead. She had been murdered.

Twenty years after that terrible night, Jeremy and his girls are not the people they might have been had Lizzie not died. They’re certainly different, but not damaged. This is the candid, heartrending story of how they got there, of how, faced with the worst thing that could possibly happen, they put their lives back together, bit by bit and piece by piece. It’s a story of how Daddy became Mummydaddy and of the pitfalls along the way, from how on earth you decide what to tell your children about their mother’s violent death to the practicalities of knowing what they like in their packed lunch; from helping your children to grieve when your own grief is so sharp it threatens to overwhelm you to making sure that they brush their teeth and comb their hair. It’s a story full of tears, but also of love and family and redemption.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 超級奶爸成長記，
一部溫馨的，充滿淚水的感人故事。

在 1992 年的夏天，傑瑞米•豪和他的妻子，麗茲，正在為最後一刻度假做好充分準備。麗茲在離開海濱之前，她還可以和傑瑞米一起，陪暑期班的兩個女兒，六歲的潔西嘉和五歲的露西一起讀書。那天晚上，他們來到住在薩福克郡傑瑞米母親的住處，傑瑞米設法讓兩個興奮的女孩去睡覺，讓人焦虑的是他們的母親沒有像先前承諾的那樣和兩個女兒道晚安。時間剛過午夜，一家人被一名警員喚醒，他是前來告訴他們麗茲已經死了。她被謀殺了。

經歷了20 年前那個可怕的夜晚后，傑瑞米和他的女孩們不再是那種離開麗茲就無法生活的人了。他們肯定會有所不同，但這個家還在。這是一部坦誠的，心酸的故事，講述在痛失家人後如何走出陰霾，以及面對可能發生的最壞的事情，他們是如何一點點地，逐步恢復正常的生活。父親如何一路艱辛地，既當爹又當媽的拉扯孩子長大故事，從究竟決定怎麼告訴孩子們她們的母親非正常死亡的原因，到實際掌握他們喜歡什麼樣的盒裝午餐；從當自己已是悲痛欲絕時，如何幫助孩子們撫慰悲傷，到要確保為孩子們晚睡前刷牙，梳理頭髮。這是部讓人熱淚盈眶的感人故事，也是一部關於愛情和家庭與救贖的故事。(Sandy)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 傑瑞米豪是BBC的高級主管。他和他的現任妻子詹妮住在倫敦。他的兩個女兒現在已長大成人。

Jeremy Howe is a senior executive at the BBC. He lives in London with his wife, Jennie. His two daughters are now grown-up.

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