Till the Sun Grows Cold: A Mother's Compelling Memoir of the Life of Her Daughter - Couverture rigide

McCune, Maggie

 
9780747222866: Till the Sun Grows Cold: A Mother's Compelling Memoir of the Life of Her Daughter
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ISBN 10 : 074722286X ISBN 13 : 9780747222866
Editeur : Headline Book Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

A mother's story trying to piece together her daughter's life, from an unconventional middle English childhood to her dangerous life on one side of Sudan's civil war. Emma's passion for Africa led her to aid work in Sudan where she married a guerrilla commander and died mysteriously at the age of 29.

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Revue de presse

Maggie McCune grips your attention immediately and you know you will go on reading it until the very last page (Yorkshire Post)

'Maggie McCune grips your attention immediately and you know you will go on reading it until the very last page' Yorkshire Post

'Her story will be an inspiration to other young women' Daily Mail

Her story will be an inspiration to other young women (Daily Mail)

'This book is absorbing read, the study of a mother's relationship with her daughter, as well as an examination of how aid projects function in a war zone. And of course it's an exotic love story' Spectator

This book is absorbing read, the study of a mother's relationship with her daughter, as well as an examination of how aid projects function in a war zone. And of course it's an exotic love story (Spectator)

'McCune intereaves the story of her own upbringing in Assam and disastrous marriage with that of her magnetic and vivacious daughter, meditating poignantly on what it means for a mother to outlive her children, to bury them in the earth and walk away.'''
Daily Telegraph

Biographie de l'auteur

Maggie McCune was born in Quetta, India, in 1942. Having attended boarding school in England she returned to India in 1962 where she met and married her husband; the family then came back to live in North Yorkshire. Maggie's career, apart from bringing up her four children single-handedly, has included a variety of jobs in schools, a fine art auctioneer and a publishing house.

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Éditeur
Headline Book Publishing
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
074722286X
ISBN 13 
9780747222866
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780747275398: 'Till the Sun Grows Cold

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0747275394 ISBN 13 :  9780747275398
Editeur : Headline Book Publishing, 1999
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