Henley-on-Thames
£9.99
John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea, and mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her memory, he prompts her with songs, photographs and questions about the 1940s, when she was a young woman and he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But he finds that most of all it is her own mother she longs for – Grace, the mother she barely knew. John sets out to recreate their buried family history, delving into the secrets and silences of Mary’s fractured childhood as he imagines the life of her spirited mother.
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Publish Date: 13/03/2014Reaching from late 19th-century Cumbria to the present, this elegiac novel celebrates two spirited women: Grace, a farm labourer’s daughter who fatefully followed her heart, and Mary, the child she was forced to give up. Unsung heroines according to Mary’s son who, as his elderly mother’s mind begins to fail, lovingly recreates their lives and the vanished country of their pasts, linking three generations in a chain of enduring love, loss and courage.
| Weight | 208 g |
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| Dimensions | 196 × 130 × 17 mm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 249 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | 1st paperback ed |
| Dewey | 823.914 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
