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Relative Stranger: A Life After Death: A Sister's Life After Death

Relative Stranger: A Life After Death: A Sister's Life After Death

by Mary Loudon (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

"On the twenty seventh of January 2001, while I was skiing fast down a mountain in France, my sister, Catherine, was dying slowly in England; in a hospital I didn't know she had been admitted to, from a cancer I didn't know she had, under an identity I had no idea existed." "Relative Stranger" is the heart-rending story of Mary Loudon's search for her dead sister, whom she had not seen for the last twelve years of her life. It examines our assumptions about familial responsibility, challenging everything we believe about what it means to love, to lose, to die and, above all, to belong. It will leave no reader unaffected.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 22 Feb 2007
ISBN 10: 1841958948
ISBN 13: 9781841958941
Prizes: Shortlisted for BT Mind Awards Book of the Year 2007.

Media Reviews
One of the most moving and compelling memoirs of the year. * * Scotsman * *
Vivid, true and moving. * * The Times * *
In the book's opening sentence we have it all: the author's easeful lifestyle, good health, physical skill, happiness, contrasted in a blighted life ending in diseased obscurity. And the guilt arising from that contrast. * * Daily Mail * *
Standing head and shoulders above the rest of the memoir genre is journalist Mary Loudon's honest, unsentimental, exquisitely written book about her schizophrenic sister. * * Eve * *
Author Bio
Mary Loudon is the author of Secrets & Lives, Middle England Revealed; Revelations, The Clergy Questioned and Unveiled, Nuns Talking. All three were published to enormous critical acclaim. Mary has won four writing prizes. She broadcasts frequently, has contributed to four anthologies, chaired many public discussions and been a Whitbread Prize judge. Mary is 38, married with two young daughters. She lives in Oxfordshire and the Wye Valley.