This time next year we'll be laughing : a memoir /
After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Soho Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz, her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during World War II, her parents' years living with Romani Gypsies and Jacqueline's own childhood working on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception. An eye-opening and heartfelt portrayal of a postwar England we rarely see, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing is the story of a childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory. |
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| Item Description: | Illustrations on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | 303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1641292695 9781641292696 |