Fractured Motherhood

Join award winning author, Maggie Walters, for an author talk about her latest memoir.

What's being said about Fractured Motherhood:

Cynthia Banham, author of Mother Shadow

In Fractured Motherhood, Maggie Walters grapples with a fear familiar to many new parents: how would the way she was raised influence her as a mother?  In Maggie’s case, she was parented by an abusive father and a mother who looked away. Her response – defined by extraordinary resilience and an enormous capacity for love – will inspire. Fractured Motherhood is heart-felt, brave, and, ultimately, triumphant.

Anna Featherstone, author Honey Farm Dreaming

There are many types of would-be parents, but not all of them have dissociative identity disorder. This book offers a rare, courageous, and compassionate account of becoming a mother under extraordinary inner circumstances.

Matthew Roberts, perinatal psychiatrist, Melbourne

Fractured Motherhood is Maggie Walters’ moving follow-up to SPLIT. It’s a quest to become the parent she never had - loving, present, safe. She takes us to opposite sides of the world, to the birthplaces of her parents and of her adoptive children. In both places she’s looking for meaning, but in only one does she find love.

Every parent wonders if they’re getting it right. Motherhood is full of doubt, love, fear and hope. This book is about that struggle, and about the possibility that we can give our children something better than what we received.