Dear Mother: Letters from the Heart

Hardcover collection of fictional letters between Muslim mothers, by Suma Din, on motherhood, family and faith, for women and mothers aged 18+. Covers topics such as new babies, single parenting and burnout.

This book speaks to Muslim mothers nurturing their families within a faith framework and centres their experience. In candid exchanges from one mother to another, doubts and insecurities are gently replaced with understanding and support.

Dear Mother… brings together mothers of all ages and backgrounds in a compendium of fictional letters written from the heart. Great challenges and responsibilities, hopes and disappointments are explored without apology. One mother prepares for a new-born, while another shares her experience of being a single parent. Another letter asks why a mother at the primary school gate feels burnt out by 9 am, and another gives the advice a grandmother passes down to her granddaughter.

Whether in the ante-natal clinic, on a bus or in the masjid, the letters reveal a variety of mothers' inner dialogue, which is rarely heard in society.