Searching for Mary Poppins
Subtitle: women write about the intense relationship between mothers and nannies
By: edited by Susan Davis and Gina Hyams ; foreword by Melissa Block
Contributors: Davis, Susan; Hyams, Gina
Publisher: Hudson Street Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Nannies -- United States -- Case studies; Mothers -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: A series of essays by twenty-five top women writers explores the dynamic between mothers and nannies as well as the spectrum of emotions experienced by mothers when relinquishing their children to another caregiver, in a volume that includes pieces by Susan Cheever, Joyce Maynard, and Jacquelyn Mitchard.