The Silver River by Daisy Goodwin
What makes a woman leave her children? Sometimes you have to go back 150 years to find out! Daisy Goodwin's mother left home when Daisy was five and embarked upon a bohemian life in Swanage. Daisy was brought up by her respectable father and her meticulous German stepmother and adored her glamorous mother from afar. She made sense of her mother's difference and of her absence through her imaginings about the family's unstable South American history. It was only when Daisy underwent a deep depression following the birth of her own daughter, that she felt the weight of her mother's abandonment and the burden of her family's past take root in her own life. Daisy's family, on her mother's side, is as eccentric and wayward as any family could be. Her Irish forebears -- a Catholic and a Protestant -- were driven from their southern Irish home and emigrated to Argentina. Their history there is one of vast wealth rapidly acquired and just as rapidly lost, of gambling, of horses, of suicides and breakdowns, of isolation in the bleak expanses of the Pampas and of the heights of high society. In this extraordinary memoir, the contrasts between Argentina and England serve as a metaphor for the clashes in the author's life, caught between two parents, two countries and two cultures. Intensely personal, funny and unsentimental, 'The Silver River' explores universal questions about families, identity and growing up in a way that has never been done before.
'From the opening sentence of "Silver River", it is clear that Daisy Goodwin can catch a reader by the throat!an intriguing memoir' Times Literary Supplement
Daisy Goodwin is a TV producer, broadcaster and writer. She has edited eighty poetry anthologies including the bestselling '101 Poems to Save Your Life'. She has recently set up her own production company Silver River. She lives in London with her husband and her two daughters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002258302 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002258307 |
| Title | The Silver River |
| Author | Daisy Goodwin |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2007-09-17 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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