A World Book Night book

To be released at the UK Un-Con

This is one of the many, probably far too many, books that I brought home from the amazing Book Buffet at the fantastic BookCrossing Unconvention in Nottingham over the weekend. With all the books I already have hanging around the house waiting to be read, I really should have been more restrained - but I wasn't! It's a case of the more, the merrier, I think. Goodness knows when I'll get round to reading them all but I'll report back with my comments when I do!
As a World Book Night Book Giver myself, I love finding other WBN titles. Thanks for adding it to the piles on offer, safrolistics! And congratulations on the hat :-)

Amazon Editorial Review: "In this poignant memoir of his parents’ marriage, Alan Bennett recalls the lost world of his childhood and the lives, loves, and deaths of his unforgettable aunties, Kathleen and Myra. First published in the acclaimed collection Untold Stories, this tender, intimate family portrait beautifully captures the Bennetts’ hopes, disappointments, and yearning for a life like other people’s. With the sudden descent of his mother into depression, and later dementia, Bennett uncovers a long-held family secret in this extraordinarily moving and at times irresistibly funny work of autobiography."

With Alan Bennett being so totally Northern, I hadn't realised his mother ended her life in a nursing home in Weston-super-Mare, where I was brought up and where many of my extended family still live. There was an eerie irony in reading about her funeral today when just last Monday I was at my uncle's in the same crematorium! In fact, many of the remarks and attitudes in this memoir seem strangely familiar - but I'm not specifying which .... It's an interesting and honest account, painfully honest at times, maybe even too honest given how shy and private his parents were ....

On the Bookstall at the Spring Fair!

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