MOTHER COUNTRY by Jeremy Harding ( 9780571212897 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

MOTHER COUNTRY

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Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0571212891

ISBN 13:

9780571212897

Publisher:

FABER & FABER

Pub. date:

6 April, 2006

Pages:

192

Description:

Tells the true story about a man looking for the mother he'd never known, and finding out how little he'd understood about the one he'd grown up with. This is a literary memoir of adoption, a family mystery, and the need to belong.

Synopsis:

This is a hugely moving and affecting literary memoir of adoption, a family mystery, and the need to belong. When Jeremy Harding was a child, his mother Maureen told him he was adopted. She described his natural parents as a Scandinavian sailor and a 'little Irish girl' who worked at Woolworth's. It was only later, as Harding set out to look for traces of his birth mother, that he began to understand who his adoptive mother really was - and the benign make-believe world she'd built for herself and her little boy. "Mother Country" evokes a magical childhood spent in transit between Notting Hill Gate and a decrepit houseboat on the banks of the Thames. It is a detective quest, as Harding searches through the public record for a clue about his natural mother, and a rich social history of a lost London from the 1950s. "Mother Country" is a powerful true story, full of thrilling revelations, comic confusion, and tender memories, about a man looking for the mother he'd never known, and finding out how little he'd understood about the one he'd grown up with.

Publication:

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Returns:

Non-returnable

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BOOK, THE BAY, THE BREAKFAST TABLE (PB)

BORDER VIGILS (PB)

MOTHER COUNTRY (PB)

SELECTED POEMS AND LETTERS (PB)

UNINVITED (PB)

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