In Their Footsteps:

This book will not tell you how to be a good mother or a better mother. It will not give you answers. What it will give you is a mirror, an echo for questions that may have been asked in our fast - paced world, overflowing with false images of perfect motherhood. In this book, you will find fleeting thoughts that never had time to be strung together, fragments of feelings that slipped away at the end of the day, unacknowledged and uncontained. You will meet mothers who remind you of yourself, mothers you might look to for guidance, and others still-each unique. This book is a mosaic of human experiences, mothers from a different time, woven together. Find yourself companions in these pages, friends in motherhood, sisters in shared experience. Discover yourself as a mother anew among them. Then, take what resonates, take what speaks to you, and return to life outside the book. Do not read this book. Instead, let it read you. That is how this book is meant to be read.