This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing |
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Author:
| Winspear, Jacqueline |
ISBN: | 978-1-64129-294-8 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2021 |
Publisher: | Soho Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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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 WWII; her parents' years living with...
More DescriptionAfter 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 WWII; her parents' years living with Romani Gypsies, and Jacqueline's own childhood working on farms in rural Kent.