POSTED: 11 SEPTEMBER 2010

In her latest book, The Power of Mothers, Celia Lashlie sends a searing wake-up call to voters and politicians, parents and grandparents, social agencies and lobby groups alike. She urges them to take a look around and take action.

The Power of Mothers is a hard-hitting look at our troubled society, the intergenerational cycle of crime and criminal families and the women who have the power to change things for the better — if we let them.

Lashlie takes a pragmatic look at the deep-seated issues underlying our appalling youth crime statistics. Telling it like it is, she reminds middle-class families that these crimes are not being committed by the children of “criminals”. They are our children, and we are all responsible for them.

An internationally bestselling author, Celia Lashlie has been a prison officer and prison manager, and has a degree in anthropology and Maori. A mother, nana, sought-after speaker and social commentator, she now works in a freelance capacity and lives in Wellington.

*Based on media release issued by Harper Collins.

Celia Lashlie ... takes a hard-hitting look at our troubled society.

PUBLISHING DETAILS

Celia Lashlie, The Power of Mothers | 224pp paperpack | $35 | To be published 1 October by HarperCollins.