The Black Pencil Woman: A Portrait of My Mother - Couverture rigide

Holland, Ros

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846246911 ISBN 13 : 9781846246913

Editeur : Book Guild Publishing Ltd, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Black Pencil Woman is Ros Holland's highly personal memoir of her life and family, centred around her parents and sparked by her mother's death. Her mother was the black pencil woman of the book's title, slim and chic in her customary stiletto heels. Her father, whom Ros adored, died when Ros was only ten, and her mother's overwhelming grief coloured Ros's early life in unexpected ways, which she examines with calm, almost brutal, honesty. Through an experimental narrative that roams freely, from the First World War and the hardships of a Northumberland mining community in the 1930s, to the post-war rehabilitation wards of a 1950s hospital and the stark reality of a murder in the 1960s, Holland explores the rawness of childhood bereavement, and all the joys and sorrows of family life. The voices of many characters chime in to tell their stories in their own way, in a heart-rendingly accurate portrayal of grief and growth, merged with a powerful social document of the lives of working-class men and women in the north east of England in the early twentieth century.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ros Holland has had a career in education, including working as a special needs teacher before becoming a lecturer and researcher in Education and Health Education at Southampton University. She was the UK Co-ordinator for the Europe Against Cancer Programme while at Southampton University. Ros now runs her own psychotherapy practice in Salisbury and writes and edits for the Cochrane Collaboration among others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Guild Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846246911
• ISBN 13: 9781846246913
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible