Your Favorite Mother-Daughter Duo

For the Threadbare Heart contest, we asked you about your favorite Mother/Daughter pair in fiction (in the pages or on the screen)

Petula is our winner. She has won a signed copy of the wonderful book The Threadbare Heart (linked to my review, where you can still comment to enter a copy), and is entered for a chance to win the grand prize if author Jennie Nash selects her essay to be posted next week. Look on Jennie’s sidebar for all 27 participating blogs, and click through to read their winners.

Here’s Petula’s winning entry:

This sounds like a fabulous book that I would love to read with my daughter as well as a few of my girlfriends and their daughters. My favorite mother-daughter duo? There are so many I love, but I think that the mother and daughter from The Princess Diaries is the one that stands out to me right now. My oldest daughter (who is almost 19) and I always watch these types of movies together. Now that she’s in college we don’t get the opportunity to do it as often, but it’s still on my mind a lot. Occasionally we’ll text each other or call to say we see one of our favorites on television.

I think the mother-daughter duo in The Princess Diaries is my favorite because of the type of relationship they have in allowing each other to be creative and different. They’re friends, but the mother has set boundaries that she expects the daughter to abide by. The daughter may sometimes break the rules or be defiant (and what she does isn’t normally that bad!), but she always comes around.

Their relationship and closeness stand the test of time, maturation, distance and circumstance. It’s exactly what Amber (my sweet teenager) and I have.