Mummy's Legs |
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Author:
| Bingham, Kate |
ISBN: | 978-1-86049-489-5 |
Publication Date: | May 1999 |
Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $25.13 |
Book Description:
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One day Catherine - a natural blonde - finds a hair in the shower. It is black, forty-two centimetres long and kinked into peculiar curls as though it has been badly ironed. She sellotapes it to a sheet of typing paper, slots into an envelope and hides it at the bottom of her underwear drawer. Later, when her ten-year-old daughter lets herself in after school, the house seems to be empty.
Moving between the cherry-lined avenues of elegant South Kensington and an old farmhouse...
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One day Catherine - a natural blonde - finds a hair in the shower. It is black, forty-two centimetres long and kinked into peculiar curls as though it has been badly ironed. She sellotapes it to a sheet of typing paper, slots into an envelope and hides it at the bottom of her underwear drawer. Later, when her ten-year-old daughter lets herself in after school, the house seems to be empty.
Moving between the cherry-lined avenues of elegant South Kensington and an old farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales, MUMMY'S LEGS is a haunting, evocative tale of life in the topsy-turvy adult world as seen through a young girl's eyes. A poignant tale of childhood it is also the bitter-sweet story of a daughter's attempt to fix her mother's broken heart.