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All the Beggars Riding (häftad, eng)
When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Iris...
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When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic, where he met their mother years before, and they only once went on a family holiday together, to Spain, where their mother cried and their father lost his temper and left early.
Because home, for their father, wasn''t Earls Court: it was Belfast, where he led his other life...
Narrated by Lara, nearing forty and nursing her dying mother, All the Beggars Riding is the heartbreaking portrait of a woman confronting her past just as she realises that time is running out
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 272 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Faber & Faber |
Utgivningsdatum | 2014-02-06 |
ISBN | 9780571270569 |
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- Häftad, 272, Engelska, Faber & Faber, 2014-02-06, 9780571270569
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