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Secrets of a Family Album
Isla Dewar
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Description for Secrets of a Family Album
Paperback. A warm, perceptive and drily humorous new novel from the wonderful Isla Dewar, who gets under the skin of both her characters and her readers Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270.
Compulsively neat, obsessively organised, Lily is a writer who writes about writers. When she is asked to contribute to a book on lost icons, she visits Rita Boothe - photographer, journalist and wit - who took LSD when she was forty and never lived up to her promise. Rita shows Lily some of her photographs, including one of a beautiful, sexy creature drinking Jack Daniels in a white limousine. It is Mattie, Lily's mother. Lily stares in wonder and with envy - she wishes she could live with such abandon. But Mattie is no longer the woman in the limo, ... Read more
Compulsively neat, obsessively organised, Lily is a writer who writes about writers. When she is asked to contribute to a book on lost icons, she visits Rita Boothe - photographer, journalist and wit - who took LSD when she was forty and never lived up to her promise. Rita shows Lily some of her photographs, including one of a beautiful, sexy creature drinking Jack Daniels in a white limousine. It is Mattie, Lily's mother. Lily stares in wonder and with envy - she wishes she could live with such abandon. But Mattie is no longer the woman in the limo, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Headline Review
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780755300822
SKU
V9780755300822
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Ref
99-10
About Isla Dewar
Isla Dewar is the author of many acclaimed novels including Keeping up with Magda, Dancing in a Distant Place, Secrets of a Family Album and Women Talking Dirty. Women Talking Dirty was made into a film starring Eileen Atkins, Helen Bonham Carter, Gina McKee and James Nesbitt. Isla lives in Fife with her cartoonist husband.
Reviews for Secrets of a Family Album
'Dewar draws characters with acerbic wit, and also love - recommended'
West Australian
'Her characters and situations are so real-life and having been born and brought up in Edinburgh, I particularly appreciated the setting'
Hilary Carmichael
West Australian
'Her characters and situations are so real-life and having been born and brought up in Edinburgh, I particularly appreciated the setting'
Hilary Carmichael