The Yellow Duster Sisters by Susan Kennaway
Two young girls struggle to make sense of their new world in this eccentric and compelling wartime memoir
'Truthful and touching, this is a memoir that vividly evokes the wartime experience of a young girl evacuated to a strange country, far from home' * Adam Sisman *
Praise for The Kennaway Papers: 'A courageous and a healing book.. It is a reminder of the high talent that was snuffed out by James Kennaway's premature death ... and - almost as an undeclared bonus - it introduces Susan Kennaway as a highly gifted writer on her account. This remarkable book is an unsparing account of old loves and infidelities' * Sunday Times *
'Susan Kennaway writes with a beautiful lucidity and balance, and a rare candour too' * London Review of Books *
'The Kennaway Papers is a remarkably honest yet bleakly anguished book ... For these glimpses and the blazing intensity of Kennaway's work, Susan Kennaway has done herself and the memory of her first husband proud' * Scotsman *
Praise for The Kennaway Papers: 'A courageous and a healing book.. It is a reminder of the high talent that was snuffed out by James Kennaway's premature death ... and - almost as an undeclared bonus - it introduces Susan Kennaway as a highly gifted writer on her account. This remarkable book is an unsparing account of old loves and infidelities' * Sunday Times *
'Susan Kennaway writes with a beautiful lucidity and balance, and a rare candour too' * London Review of Books *
'The Kennaway Papers is a remarkably honest yet bleakly anguished book ... For these glimpses and the blazing intensity of Kennaway's work, Susan Kennaway has done herself and the memory of her first husband proud' * Scotsman *
SUSAN KENNAWAY was born in Watford in 1930. At the onset of the Second World War, she and her sister were evacuated to Africa. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and later at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. She married the writer James Kennaway, and they had four children before his death in a car accident, aged forty. Susan married Stanley Vereker on her fiftieth birthday and together they moved to the Tarn in France where Susan restores porcelain and they open their garden to the public for charity. Susan and Stanley have fourteen grandchildren and one great granddaughter. Susan Kennaway is the author of The Kennaway Papers and The Yellow Duster Sisters is her second book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408812105 |
| ISBN 10 | 140881210X |
| Title | The Yellow Duster Sisters |
| Author | Susan Kennaway |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2011-08-06 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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