Is your mum your best friend?

Our relationships with our parents evolve as we grow up and become parents ourselves. In fact, a quarter (25%) of mothers and daughters say they have become better friends over the years with 21% saying becoming parents/grandparents has brought them closer together.

But as mother-daughter dynamics evolve with time, so do the ways we communicate and what we communicate about. About 28% of mothers and daughters say they trust each other implicitly with all their problems, while 12% say they would seek the approval of their mum or daughter on a new romantic partner.

Best-selling author and mum of three, Katie Fforde knows only too well how the dymanics of the mother-daughter and daughter-mother relationship change over time. So much so, it’s the subject of her new novel: A Springtime Affair. The book explores the bond between mum Gilly and her daughter Helena, and how their respective new romances cause each of them to ask themselves the very same question: might their new loves lead to happily ever after?

Aston spoke to Katie Fforde, best-selling novelist and writer to talk about her new book, A Springtime Affair, mother-daughter dynamics and how that particular familial relationships evolves as we grow older.