“Jacqueline Winspear’s memoir- This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing-takes the reader through the early and adolescent years of the author’s life as well as the history of her parents’ young marriage in a fashion that is simultaneously endearing, touching, amusing, heartfelt, and astonishing. Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters and The Aftergrief Their stories of hardship and gratitude became hers, and hers became this unforgettable book.” Jacqueline Winspear’s memoir of an English country childhood is also an homage to the remarkable parents whose choices and outlooks shaped her. “ This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing is a beautifully rendered, elegant work of literary architecture joining the present to the past. Anne Lamott, bestselling novelist, essayist, memoirist, author of Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Her writing is lovely, elegant and welcoming.” “Jacqueline Winspear has created a memoir of her English childhood that is every bit as engaging as her Maisie Dobbs novels, just as rich in character and detail, history and humanity. 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, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception.Īn eye-opening and heartfelt portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing is the story of a childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory. The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her Kentish childhood and her family’s resilience in the face of war and privation.Īfter sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history.
This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing A Memoir Now available in paperback
0 kommentar(er)
