Till The Sun Grows Cold. Searching for My Daughter, Emma

McCune, Maggie

ISBN 10: 074722286X / ISBN 13: 9780747222866

Edité par Headline Book Publishing, London, 1999

A propos de cet article

First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLUE PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'For Stephanie, With best wishes Maggie McCune 4 March 2003'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine very slightly faded, corners very slightly bruised, slight lean. Not price clipped (£16.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 310pp, illustrated, map endpapers. 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. Scarce signed.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Till The Sun Grows Cold. Searching for My Daughter, Emma
• Éditeur: Headline Book Publishing, London
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 074722286X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780747222866
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Jacket by Peter Moszynski
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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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.

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