Not Speaking - Couverture souple

Clarke, Norma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1789650259 ISBN 13 : 9781789650259

Editeur : Unbound Digital, 2019

Synopsis

Families are places of love, care, and fun; also of anger, anxiety, and quarrels. Not Speaking tells the story of a Greek matriarch, Rena, and her English children in post-war London and the present.

It begins with Rena’s move out of a flat in St John’s Wood owned by her son Nicky Clarke, and the family disagreement that erupted. Moving through the London slums of Blackfriars, Greece under Nazi occupation, the Old Kent Road, Elephant and Castle, and the world of Mayfair hairdressing, this is a tale of enrichment and fame, infidelity and its consequences.

And in the end, it has a message: every family is unique and all families are the same.

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'Wonderfully evocative – funny, illuminating and moving.'

Jenny Uglow

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born and living most of her life in London, Norma Clarke has had a varied career in teaching: in schools, colleges, adult education and, latterly, as a professor at Kingston University. While her two sons were small Norma wrote children’s fiction; later, when she taught literature at university, her work reflected her specialism in women’s writing in the eighteenth century, and her interest in Irish writers in London. Not Speaking is a family memoir about Norma’s Greek mother, English father and five siblings (including celebrity hairdresser Nicky Clarke) – but it is also a story about London, the city she loves.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Unbound Digital
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789650259
• ISBN 13: 9781789650259
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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