$35.64
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2009
Summary
Hilarious and heart-rending, a fantastic reinvention of the modern British memoir - as original as Stuart- A Life Backwards and as touching as Nigel Slater’s Toast
“It’s 1979, I’m three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-hand, floral-patterned settee, and lean forward, like I’m presenting myself for execution.”
For Sathnam Sanghera, growing up in Wolverhampton in the ei…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141028590 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141028599 |
| Author: | Sathnam Sanghera |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 22mm |
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‘I absolutely loved it. Heartbreaking and wonderful. He writes beautifully’ - Maggie O’Farrell ‘Could not be more enjoyable, engaging or moving’ Observer ‘About real secrets, in a real quest for understanding. It’s tragic, funny and disturbing. It will challenge you, and may even change you’ - Carole Angier, Independent ‘Hilarious, engaging, tragicomic’ - Meg Rosoff, Guardian “Gripping and entertaining, horrifying and tender ! Exposes all those things we take for granted as we grow up’ - Hardeep Singh Kohli, The Times
About The Author
Sathnam Sanghera
Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi immigrant parents in Wolverhampton in 1976. He entered the education system unable to speak English but went on to graduate from Christ’s College, Cambridge with a first class degree in English Language and Literature. He has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards twice, for his memoir The Boy With The Topknot and his novel Marriage Material. Empireland has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He lives in London.
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