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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Reaching from late 19th-century Cumbria to the present, this elegiac novel celebrates two spirited women: Grace, a farm labourer's daughter who fatefully followed her heart; and Mary, the child she was forced to give up. According to Mary's son, these two women are unsung heroines. And, as his elderly mother's mind begins to fail, he sets about the task of lovingly recreating their lives and the vanished country of their pasts, linking three generations in a chain of enduring love, loss and courage. By 'quite simply one of the best writers we have' (Sunday Telegraph), a profoundly moving story spanning three generations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781444762372
Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. By 'quite simply one of the best writers we have' (Sunday Telegraph), a profoundly moving story spanning three generations. Seller Inventory # B9781444762372
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 7.80x5.31x0.71 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __1444762370
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Book Description Condition: New. By 'quite simply one of the best writers we have' (Sunday Telegraph), a profoundly moving story spanning three generations. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9781444762372
Book Description Condition: New. By 'quite simply one of the best writers we have' (Sunday Telegraph), a profoundly moving story spanning three generations. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781444762372
Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 6666-HCE-9781444762372
Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Could he not put together a memory for her Perhaps he could become her memory. To build it from fragments, or make it up. And most of all bring back Grace. Her own mother.John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea, and mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her receding memory, he prompts her with songs, photographs and questions from their shared past, taking her back to the 1940s, when she was a young woman and he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But as he rekindles her memories, it is her own mother she longs for - and John finds himself delving further back, into the secrets and silences of Mary's fractured childhood, and the unsung sorrows of her thwarted yet spirited mother, Grace. In an effort to console his mother before she slips away, John sets out to re-imagine Grace's life, to honour the memory of a grandmother he barely knew. Reaching from the late 19th century to the present, John's loving recreation of forgotten family history and unspoken maternal grief becomes a moving elegy for the long hidden chain of love, loss, and self-sacrifice which forms each and every generation. 256 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9781444762372
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Reaching from late 19th-century Cumbria to the present, this elegiac novel celebrates two spirited women: Grace, a farm labourer's daughter who fatefully followed her heart; and Mary, the child she was forced to give up. According to Mary's son, these two women are unsung heroines. And, as his elderly mother's mind begins to fail, he sets about the task of lovingly recreating their lives and the vanished country of their pasts, linking three generations in a chain of enduring love, loss and courage. By 'quite simply one of the best writers we have' (Sunday Telegraph), a profoundly moving story spanning three generations. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781444762372