Hold Back the Night by Rosemary Kingsland
The true story of a young woman's love affair with Richard Burton Born into a joyless, volatile and, by turns, impoverished family, Rosemary Kingsland tells for the first time her story of how, at just thirteen, her life was transformed forever when she met and fell in love with the actor Richard Burton. In this extraordinary memoir the writer and journalist, recounts growing up first in India, then Wales and finally post-war London where she lived with her drunken, and endlessly scheming father and her melancholic, star-crossed mother eking out a living with hardly enough money for the basic necessities. Homelife was an endless cycle of her father's barely concealed infidelities and savage outbursts and her mother's breakdowns, more than often leaving Rosemary to see to her young siblings, all the while keeping a paper round and riding to school each day dreaming of something else - something better. In 1954, the young Richard Burton was causing a sensation in London's theatre land with both his talent as an actor and his arresting, brooding good looks commanding attention from producers and hoards of adoring fans alike. Rosemary first knew of him when she went with her father to hear a reading of Under Milk Wood at once captivated by his magnetic gaze. And here at the core of her story, Rosemary tells of how a later, accidental meeting with Burton marked the start of a passionate, intense relationship that, for a time at least, allowed her to escape from the sadness of her isolation into an entirely new and dazzling world.
Rosemary Kingsland has been a novelist, ghostwriter, journalist and has written for the Sunday Times and the Evening Standard. Her late husband was the journalist and castaway Gerald Kingsland, with whom she had three sons. She lived in Nashville, Tennessee for 10 years in the 1980s-90s before returning to London, where she lives today.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844131891 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844131890 |
| Title | Hold Back the Night |
| Author | Rosemary Kingsland |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2003-07-03 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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