Kiss Myself Goodbye (ePub)
The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
(Sprache: Englisch)
'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
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'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman
'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate Summerscale
...
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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 2021
A 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
'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman
'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate Summerscale
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021
A 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
Autoren-Porträt von Ferdinand Mount
Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939, the son of a steeplechase jockey, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford, he made various false starts as a children's nanny, a gossip columnist, bagman to Selwyn Lloyd, and leader-writer on the doomed Daily Sketch. He later surfaced, slightly to his surprise and everyone else's, as head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit and later editor of The Times Literary Supplement. He is married with three children and three grandchildren and has lived in Islington for half his life. Apart from political columns and essays, he has written a six-volume series of novels, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, which began with The Man Who Rode Ampersand, based on his father's racing life, and included Of Love And Asthma (he is a temporarily retired asthmatic), which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He also writes what he calls Tales of History and Imagination, including Umbrella, which the historian Niall Ferguson called 'quite simply the best historical novel in years'. His most recent titles for Bloomsbury Continuum include Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca and the novel Making Nice.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ferdinand Mount
- 2020, 1. Auflage, 304 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- ISBN-10: 1472979435
- ISBN-13: 9781472979438
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.10.2020
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