Ages since I read this, saw the film .... so I'll just copy from the back page "A moving and remarkable memoir"

Picked up at the meetup last night. I think Mom said she read it and really liked it.

For the Belmont Cafe 21.2.08, already noted by the efficient "Vicar of Dibley"!

I had just started this book when my brother, Matt, died. I took it along to read on the plane, and finished it on the plane on the way home again. So, I read it during a very sad time. That is fitting as it is a book filled with sadness and tragedy.

"A Memoir of a Childhood" is an apt description, but what a childhood! So much suffering, poverty, illness, deprivation and death, and it all happened not that long ago.

It is one of those stories that captures me, that I don't want to put down until I've finished. It is, for me, a very well told story.

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Back to the meet-up!

obcz 17.4.08

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