Dead Babies and Seaside Towns by Alice Jolly
This award-winning memoir is a savagely personal yet undeniably hopeful story of stillbirth, surrogacy and finding solace in seaside towns- 'The miracle is that this powerfully written book is not only bearable but compulsively readableIt should be grim but it is absolutely not. Jolly's resolute determination to tell the whole, exhausting truth, however searing, emotional, unfashionable, unpalatable or savagely humorous, keeps is turning the pages, well into the night, and cheering her on' Financial Times
- 'Her account is astonishingly moving and her prose nothing short of hypnotic' Independent
- 'Beautifully written and brutally honest' Sunday Times
- 'So beautifully written that you can't stop reading' Woman and Home
- 'Alice's writing is so precise and courageous it transforms her grief into a deeply powerful sense of hope and defiance' Rowan Pelling
- 'Painful but also funny, hopeful and ultimately joyful. A really honest account of womanhood and motherhood' The Pool
Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. She won the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Literature in 2014 for one of her short stories, ‘Ray the Rottweiler’. Her third novel, Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile,was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2019. She has written for the Guardian, Mail on Sunday and the Independent, and she has broadcast for Radio 4. She lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783521050 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783521058 |
| Title | Dead Babies and Seaside Towns |
| Author | Alice Jolly |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Unbound |
| Year published | 2015-07-02 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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