Brooke Shields writes of life with her mother

Brooke Shields, the iconic model-actress-Princeton graduate, entered the literary scene in 2005 with her memoir about postpartum depression. This time, she sheds light on the relationship she shared with her mother, and it's a well-crafted and insightful read from beginning to end.

It would be a shame to dismiss There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me as a celebrity tell-all. Instead, it's a thoughtful, poignant and provoking story about a girl and her mom prompted by a New York Times obituary written shortly after Teri Shields' death in 2012.

"If this dead 79-year-old woman could elicit such a vehement response and vicious reaction so many years after her prominence in the public eye," Brooke Shields writes in the prologue, "there was something there that needed to be explored".