Mother Country

Mother Country

by JeremyHarding (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Media Reviews
'Beautifully written, funny and sad, this book is simply captivating.' Cressida Connolly
Author Bio
Jeremy Harding is the author of Small Wars, Small Mercies: Journeys in Africa's Disputed Nations (1994) and The Uninvited, a report on clandestine migrants and asylum seekers in Western Europe, which won the Martha Gellhorn Award for journalism in 2001. His translations of Rimbaud's poetry were published by Penguin in 2004. He is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books.