The main characters are a mother cat and her thoroughly unbearable, totally ordinary daughter.
And for a while we are back in time, an ordinary mother and an ordinary daughter, passing clothes along, sharing our lives.
He tried the patience of more practical and straightforwardly ambitious politicians like Nehru, for example by proposing Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's would-be leader, as India's first prime minister, to avert partition.Indira was the rather ordinary daughter of an extraordinary man who seemed befuddled by power.
By the time Adlington was Chloe's age, swimming was her passion, her obsession, and the object of what, in an otherwise ordinary girl, the youngest of three daughters from an ordinary Mansfield family, amounted to truly extraordinary willpower.
Far from being out of the ordinary, the daughters' anonymity immediately recalls that of Chelsea Clinton during her father's first presidential campaign, in 1992, and is shared to a degree by the three younger Gore children.
An intelligent, dispassionate first novel that constructs and deconstructs a somewhat off-center Jewish family whose lives change when a hitherto ordinary fifth-grade daughter turns out to be an all-American spelling champ.
An intelligent, dispassionate first novel that constructs and deconstructs a somewhat off-center Jewish family whose lives change when a hitherto ordinary fifth-grade daughter turns out to be an all-American spelling bee champ.
They had never been like an ordinary mother and daughter, partly because Amina was an only child, and partly because they'd spent so much time together after she had to leave school, studying the textbooks they borrowed from the British Council: "Functional English" and "New English First".
In response to the scene that sees Ellis interacting with Webber, Rater wrote that it is the first time she lets her guard down, exposing the previously hidden vulnerability, which allows her express the desire to be as happy and ordinary as her daughter.
They also squabble and bicker just like ordinary mothers and daughters, and their schemes are complicated when one of them falls reluctantly in love.
He worries about ordinary things like his daughter's college tuition.
