Without Warning and Only Sometimes : 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times by Kit de Waal
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes
'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' - The Sunday Times by Kit de Waal
Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' - Marian Keyes
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From the award-winning author of MY NAME IS LEON comes a childhood memoir set to become a classic: stinging, warm-hearted, and true. Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse, and childminder sometimes all at once, and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his relatives in the Caribbean, cooked elaborate meals on a whim, and splurged money they didn't have on cars, suits, and shoes fit for a prince. Both of her parents were waiting for paradise. It never came.
Caught between three worlds—Irish, Caribbean, and British—in 1960s Birmingham, Kit and her brothers and sisters knew all the words to the best songs, caught sticklebacks in jam jars, and braved hunger and hellfire until they could all escape. WITHOUT WARNING AND ONLY SOMETIMES is a story of an extraordinary childhood and how a girl who grew up in a house where the Bible was the only book on offer went on to discover a love of reading that inspires her to this day.
Pages: 304
Release Date: 13/04/2023
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