Things My Mothers Never Told Me (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Im six years old and having a life crisis. Are you my mummy? is the question I could never ask because I love both my mothers equally: Tyna, the tiny one and Bigga, who is bigger. I havent got a daddy either, and it seems rude to ask.
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Im six years old and having a life crisis. Are you my mummy? is the question I could never ask because I love both my mothers equally: Tyna, the tiny one and Bigga, who is bigger. I havent got a daddy either, and it seems rude to ask.
This is a sharp and entertaining true story, beginning in war-torn London, of how the author navigated her way through family passions and oddities, secrets and multiple identities. On the way she encounters a Christmas pudding sent annually care of the Bank of Scotland; sitting on a Tutors cat during a Cambridge University interview; running the family corner shop as a school girl; discovering a cache of beautiful postcards from all over Europe; and the seaside wedding of one of her mothers.
One of my mothers is has yet another stroke. Im by her side when the consultant points to a scar on her belly and asks her what it is. Silently she raises her hand and gestures towards me. A Caesarean section all those years ago. I am her daughter. We never speak of it.
After Bigga and Tyna died, I begin a paper trail to find news of my father. One morning I walk across Westminster Bridge to meet a half-sister. I have been an only child for 50 years. Over lunch I discover that I am the sixth of seven siblings born to four women - and I have a famous Swiss grandfather.
The book ends by tackling some questions Im often asked, such as: Were your mothers lesbians? Does a child need a father? Is the past good for you? Do therapists help?
This is a sharp and entertaining true story, beginning in war-torn London, of how the author navigated her way through family passions and oddities, secrets and multiple identities. On the way she encounters a Christmas pudding sent annually care of the Bank of Scotland; sitting on a Tutors cat during a Cambridge University interview; running the family corner shop as a school girl; discovering a cache of beautiful postcards from all over Europe; and the seaside wedding of one of her mothers.
One of my mothers is has yet another stroke. Im by her side when the consultant points to a scar on her belly and asks her what it is. Silently she raises her hand and gestures towards me. A Caesarean section all those years ago. I am her daughter. We never speak of it.
After Bigga and Tyna died, I begin a paper trail to find news of my father. One morning I walk across Westminster Bridge to meet a half-sister. I have been an only child for 50 years. Over lunch I discover that I am the sixth of seven siblings born to four women - and I have a famous Swiss grandfather.
The book ends by tackling some questions Im often asked, such as: Were your mothers lesbians? Does a child need a father? Is the past good for you? Do therapists help?
Autoren-Porträt von Yvonne Craig Inskip
Since studying social anthropology at Cambridge University, Yvonne Craig Inskip has been a TV presenter, a magistrate, a City Councillor, journalist, student counsellor, university lecturer, and an obituary editor. She has also lectured at national and international conferences on how adults learn. She was President of Newnham College Cambridge Alumnae. She has written or edited three books including Tomorrow Is Another Country: education in a post-modern world, and as a mature student gained an M.A. in Creative and Life Writing (with Distinction) at Goldsmiths College, London University. She’s also a wife, a mother and grand-mother. In the optimistic 1960s she joined the fight for free contraceptive advice as and when needed, a time when campaigners thought that it would put an end to most abortions and much child poverty: Every Child a Wanted Child. Her own experience made her passionate about a child’s need to be born into a group of specific adults – whether or not they were connected by blood – who recognised their life-long responsibilities. Her other campaigns included facilities for young children with disability; a fight for the right of parents to visit their children in hospital in the days when visiting could be restricted to an hour a week; and legislation to stop the sale of dangerous toys. To do that - with the help of the British Design Council and a group of friends - she curated an exhibition of Safe Toys in Scunthorpe Art Gallery which attracted international attention.
She started life in war-torn London and now lives near Westminster Bridge. A Christian, her first book Learning for Life was written when she was the Church of England’s National Adult Education Adviser. Described as ‘a minor classic’, it points out the benefit of finding and using your own personal learning style as an adult.
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- Autor: Yvonne Craig Inskip
- 2013, 390 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AuthorHouse UK
- ISBN-10: 1481796496
- ISBN-13: 9781481796491
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2013
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