This is an interesting article about the type of relationship I describe in my novel, The Tale of Lucia Grandi, the Early Years. The author says discussing this type of relationship is still taboo and I think it perhaps is given that some of the reactions I got from readers of my novel surprised me. These same readers have no trouble reading novels about rapes and murders but at the same time they found my story about an unloving, cold and distant mother and its effects on her spirited daughter very disturbing.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/tech-support/201304/daughters-unloving-mothers-7-common-wounds
