The Dressmaker's Daughter

Some losses don't just break you-they take you apart, piece by piece, until youare no longer the person you once were. On July 7, 2005, Azuma Wundowa's lifecrumbled when her mother boarded a bus in London and never came home.That summer, at sixteen, Azuma was gleefully waiting for concert tickets to arrive andenjoying life as it was. But then her mother went missing amidst one of the mostdevastating tragedies in London-the 7/7 bombings. It didn't make any sense: oneday, she was making tea with her mother in their kitchen; the next, she was staring outthe window, waiting for someone who would never return.When her father uttered the piercing words, "The police have come to say they foundmummy. She is dead," her world disintegrated. Her mother, the very definition ofstrength, was among the 52 victims of the bombings, one of those on bus 30.The Dressmaker's Daughter takes you through the rawness and aftermath of griefand loss. From subsequently losing her home and a challenged relationship with herfather to waking up years later from a vivid dream of taking her mother to a spa-onlyto be gut-punched by reality-Azuma captures the jagged edges of life when theworld stops for you but continues for everyone else.This book is about how trauma lingers in the mundane-how a simple Mother's Daycard in a store can cut like a knife-and, most importantly, how you can find yourown version of healing, even when it feels like nothing but a distant wish.