She left me the gun : my mother's life before me
Brockes, Emma2013
Books, Manuscripts
Growing up in a tranquil English village, Emma knew very little of her mother's life before her. She knew Paula had grown up in South Africa and had seven siblings. She had been told stories about deadly snakes and hailstones the size of golf balls. There was mention, once, of a trial. But most of the past was a mystery. When her mother dies of cancer, Emma - by then a successful journalist at the Guardian - is free to investigate the untold story. Her search begins in the Colindale Library but then takes her to South Africa, to the extended family she has never met and their accounts of a childhood so different to her own.
Main title:
She left me the gun : my mother's life before me / Emma Brockes.
Author:
Brockes, Emma, author
Imprint:
London : Faber and Faber, 2013.London : Faber and Faber, 2013.
Collation:
ix, 340 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780571275823 (hbk)
Dewey class:
968.05092968.05092 BRO968.05092BRO
Language:
English
BRN:
737949