A Mother's Gift is a 2001 novel by pop music singer Britney Spears and her mother, Lynne Spears. It is their second book together, following 2000's "Heart-to-Heart". The novel is loosely based on Britney's life. Popular reactions to the novel in spaces like Amazon were mixed. In 2012, rumors of a third novel sequel surfaced.
Lynne Spears helped released the book, Heart-to-Heart.
Because it wasn't directly phrased like that in the context, but still implied very strongly that they wrote the first book together.