Secrets and Lives: Middle England Revealed - Couverture souple

Loudon, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330368656 ISBN 13 : 9780330368650

Editeur : Pan Books, 2001

Synopsis

"[A] Canterbury Tale for our times...Everyone has something of value to impart, even the humblest; in some, there is a shining nobility." - Valerie Grove, "The Times". "There is great ambition and equal skill in successfully communicating nothing more, nothing less, than the stuff of humanity. A real-life soap opera going on in Oxfordshire, with better stories by far than fiction". - Bel Mooney, "The Times". "As a writer, Mary Loudon has a precious gift. She can listen. And so, people tell her things they might otherwise lock inside their hearts. She follows in the footsteps of Tony Parker in Britain and Studs Terkel in America. Those men, like her, had ears as sharp as scalpels. At the end of her stories, the cliches have collapsed. Under the beeswaxed middle-class veneer, emotion eats into the woodwork: envy, pride, grief, ambition, despair. Above all, this is a chronicle of people's dreams; their hopes of what might have been and their regrets about what could have been." - Paul Barker, "The Independent".

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mary Loudon was born in November 1966. She is the author of four non-fiction books: Relative Stranger: A Sister’s LifeAfter Death, Secrets & Lives: Middle England Revealed, Revelations: The Clergy Questioned and Unveiled: Nuns Talking. Her books have been published in ten countries. Mary has won four writer’s prizes, been shortlisted for the MIND Book of the Year award, and longlisted for the Richard and Judy Book of the Year award. An experienced public speaker and broadcaster, she has made over 200 radio and TV appearances, and been a judge for the Whitbread and Costa Book Awards. My House is Falling Down is her first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pan Books
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0330368656
• ISBN 13: 9780330368650
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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