All That Really Matters by Campbell Armstrong
Campbell Armstrong met his first wife Eileen in Glasgow when they were both young. She was Jewish, the only daughter of an Orthodox family, and lived in the Gorbals. When they married, Eileen showed Campbell the scar on her belly - the result of a Caesarean birth at 17. The baby had been given up for adoption and Eileen got on with her life. The couple subsequently had three sons, and moved to America where Armstrong followed a career as an academic. He was also a drunk, a drug user and a belligerent partner, but though their marriage foundered, the pair remained good friends. Years later, when Armstrong had remarried and moved to Ireland, his son received a call from Eileen: she had cancer and was dying. The family flew out to America to see her. At the same time, far off in a Yorkshire house, a 40-year-old woman was trying to trace her mother. She was Barbara - her mother Eileen. After many hitches, the two found each other and the awful truth was revealed, that Barbara, too, had cancer. What carried the two women through was their remarkable, positive personalities and - overall - an abiding love and integrity. This is a memoir of the story of the two and their lives apart and together, from Campbell Armstrong.
Campbell Armstrong is the writer of many thrillers and an ex publisher. He was born in Glasgow and in 1971 moved to America to become an academic. In 1978 he started to write full time. In 1991 after 20 years in the US, he moved to Ireland, where he now lives with his wife, Rebecca.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316851787 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316851787 |
| Title | All That Really Matters |
| Author | Campbell Armstrong |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 2000-01-20 |
| Number of pages | 279 |
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