by JeremyHarding (Author)
This title presents a hugely moving and affecting literary memoir of adoption, secrets and the need to belong. "Mother Country" evokes a magical childhood spent in transit between Notting Hill Gate and a decrepit houseboat on the banks of the Thames. It is a detective quest, as Harding searches through the public record for a clue about his natural mother, and a rich social history of a lost London from the 1950s. "Mother Country" is a powerful true story, full of thrilling revelations, comic confusion and tender memories, about a man looking for the mother he'd never known and finding out how little he'd understood about the one he'd grown up with.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 01 Mar 2007
ISBN 10: 0571212948
ISBN 13: 9780571212941
Book Overview: Mother Country by Jeremy Harding is a hugely moving and affecting literary memoir of adoption, secrets and the need to belong.