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Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood
Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood
hardback | English
Published:
1 February, 2006
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Description
Prizes
Winner of PEN/Ackerley Prize 2007.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781843544975 |
| ISBN10 | 1843544970 |
| Number Of Pages | 240 |
| Item Weight | 421 g |
| Product Dimensions | 142 x 38 x 218 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Atlantic Books |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | Main |
Media Reviews
'A a beautifully judged account of an era usually doused in
generalised sentiment' -- Daily Telegraph
'A a beautifully judged account of an era usually doused in generalised sentiment' -- Daily Telegraph
'Beautifully written and enormously entertaining' -- Scotsman
'Beautifully written and enormously entertaining' -- The Scotsman
'Funny and terrifying in turns' -- The Sunday Times
'One of the funniest - and darkest - war memoirs you'll ever
read... a spellbinding story.' -- Daily Mail
'The prefect antidote to the 'misery memior'.'
-- The Judges, Costa Book Award 2006 for Biography
?One of the funniest ? and darkest ? war memoirs you?ll ever read? a spellbinding story.? -- Daily Mail
-- Daily MailGoodReads Reviews
Author's Bio
BRIAN THOMPSON was born in Lambeth, London in 1935. After vigorous rescue remedies applied by two grammar schools, he read English at Cambridge. Since 1973 he has written for a living as a radio and television playwright and documentary film maker. His first volume of memoir, Keeping Mum, was published by Atlantic in 2006 and the second volume, Clever Girl, was published in 2007. He is also the author of several acclaimed biographies including A Monkey Among Crocodiles and The Nightmare of a Victorian Bestseller. The Widow's Secret is his first novel. He lives in Oxford.