Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times - Couverture souple

Waal, Kit De

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472284852 ISBN 13 : 9781472284853

Editeur : Tinder Press, 2023

Synopsis

'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' Marian Keyes
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From the award-winning author of MY NAME IS LEON comes a childhood memoir set to become a classic: stinging, warm-hearted, and true.

Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his relatives in the Caribbean, cooked elaborate meals on a whim and splurged money they didn't have on cars, suits and shoes fit for a prince. Both of her parents were waiting for paradise. It never came.

Caught between three worlds, Irish, Caribbean and British in 1960s Birmingham, Kit and her brothers and sisters knew all the words to the best songs, caught sticklebacks in jam jars and braved hunger and hellfire until they could all escape.

WITHOUT WARNING AND ONLY SOMETIMES is a story of an extraordinary childhood and how a girl who grew up in house where the Bible was the only book on offer went on to discover a love of reading that inspires her to this day

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kit de Waal is the author of MY NAME IS LEON, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, THE TRICK TO TIME, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a short story collection, SUPPORTING CAST, a memoir, WITHOUT WARNING & ONLY SOMETIMES, which was shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and most recently THE BEST OF EVERYTHING which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She is also editor of the COMMON PEOPLE anthology. MY NAME IS LEON was recently adapted as a film for BBC Two.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tinder Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472284852
• ISBN 13: 9781472284853
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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