Book about a mother with a secret life, daughter realizes through photograph

[SaveOurBogBrushes]

Hi,

Please help, this is bothering me so much. I'm trying to find a novel I read within the last 2 years which I believe to be fairly contemporary.

It's about a young girl/young woman and I think she's fairly self-absorbed, she often takes photos and one day takes a photo of her mother sat out on the porch, when her mother isn't 'switched on' as her mother and realizes that her mother had a life before being a parent.

I'd really like to find it, thanks.

[LoveMILbut]

Sorry, can't help. Good luck though

[SaveOurBogBrushes]

Thanks, if anyone sees this and thinks this is in the wrong place please let me know and I'll move it.

[IndridCold]

It sounds like The Photograph by Penelope Lively, although I think it was the husband.

[YonicScrewdriver]

Yes I think that too..

[SaveOurBogBrushes]

Hi, sadly definitely not but thanks for the help:)

[Ananke99]

Sounds like part of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. The girl gets a camera for her birthday and I'm sure there's a photo she takes of her mother early one morning like that.

[SaveOurBogBrushes]

Yes, it was! Thank you! I'd completely forgotten about reading that as I didn't enjoy it much but really liked that exerpt.