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Kiss Myself Goodbye
The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
Taschenbuch von Ferdinand Mount
Sprache: Englisch

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'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' - Hilary Mantel

'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman

'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate Summerscale

Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2021A Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year

Aunt Munca never told the truth about anything. Calling herself after the mouse in a Beatrix Potter story, she was already a figure of mystery during the childhood of her nephew Ferdinand Mount. Half a century later, a series of startling revelations sets him off on a tortuous quest to find out who this extraordinary millionairess really was. What he discovers is shocking and irretrievably sad, involving multiple deceptions, false identities and abandonments. The story leads us from the back streets of Sheffield at the end of the Victorian age to the highest echelons of English society between the wars.

An unconventional tale of British social history told backwards, now published with new material discovered by the author about his eccentric aunt, Kiss Myself Goodbye is both an enchanting personal memoir and a voyage into a vanished moral world
'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' - Hilary Mantel

'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman

'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate Summerscale

Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2021A Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year

Aunt Munca never told the truth about anything. Calling herself after the mouse in a Beatrix Potter story, she was already a figure of mystery during the childhood of her nephew Ferdinand Mount. Half a century later, a series of startling revelations sets him off on a tortuous quest to find out who this extraordinary millionairess really was. What he discovers is shocking and irretrievably sad, involving multiple deceptions, false identities and abandonments. The story leads us from the back streets of Sheffield at the end of the Victorian age to the highest echelons of English society between the wars.

An unconventional tale of British social history told backwards, now published with new material discovered by the author about his eccentric aunt, Kiss Myself Goodbye is both an enchanting personal memoir and a voyage into a vanished moral world
Über den Autor
Ferdinand Mount is a novelist, essayist and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1991 to 2002. He was previously head of the Number Ten Policy Unit under Margaret Thatcher. As a journalist, he has contributed regular columns to the Spectator, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. His novel Of Love and Asthma, part of a six-volume series, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1992. He lives in North London with his family.
Zusammenfassung
An archetypal English memoir of a family quest: will appeal to those who read and enjoy family history/mystery, and shows such as 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Angmering-on-Sea
2 Georgie
3 Buster
4 Charters
5 Brightside
6 Crawford Mansions
7 Eileen and Elizabeth
8 W. F.
9 Brightside Revisited
10 Seven Hills

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Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472991980
ISBN-10: 1472991982
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mount, Ferdinand
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 197 x 125 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Ferdinand Mount
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2021
Gewicht: 0,214 kg
Artikel-ID: 119590761
Über den Autor
Ferdinand Mount is a novelist, essayist and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1991 to 2002. He was previously head of the Number Ten Policy Unit under Margaret Thatcher. As a journalist, he has contributed regular columns to the Spectator, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. His novel Of Love and Asthma, part of a six-volume series, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1992. He lives in North London with his family.
Zusammenfassung
An archetypal English memoir of a family quest: will appeal to those who read and enjoy family history/mystery, and shows such as 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Angmering-on-Sea
2 Georgie
3 Buster
4 Charters
5 Brightside
6 Crawford Mansions
7 Eileen and Elizabeth
8 W. F.
9 Brightside Revisited
10 Seven Hills

Postscripts
Thanks
Picture and Text Credits
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472991980
ISBN-10: 1472991982
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mount, Ferdinand
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 197 x 125 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Ferdinand Mount
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2021
Gewicht: 0,214 kg
Artikel-ID: 119590761
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