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Oh Happy Day: Those Times and These Times
Carmen Callil
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Description for Oh Happy Day: Those Times and These Times
Paperback.
'A triumphant family memoir' Hallie Rubenhold
'Powerfully told...an impressive work' The Times
'Gives a voice to the voiceless' Australian Book Review
In this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginning with her great-great grandmother Sary Lacey, born in 1808, an impoverished stocking frame worker. Through detailed research, we follow Sary from slum to tenement and from pregnancy to pregnancy. We also meet George Conquest, a canal worker and the father of one of Sary's children. George was sentenced - for a minor theft - to seven years' transportation to Australia, where he faced the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099548560
SKU
9780099548560
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Carmen Callil
Carmen Callil was born in Australia but has spent most of her career in the United Kingdom. She founded Virago Press in 1973 and in 1982 became managing director of Chatto & Windus. Her first book, Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award.
Reviews for Oh Happy Day: Those Times and These Times
[A] remarkable tale...drawing chilling parallels to the inequalities of our time... A book that is both a heartfelt outpouring of pity and sorrow and an irate demand for restitution... Oh Happy Day deserves to be called Dickensian.
Peter Conrad
Observer
Fascinating... [Oh Happy Day] evokes echoes of the present in speaking about the past, as all great ... Read more
Peter Conrad
Observer
Fascinating... [Oh Happy Day] evokes echoes of the present in speaking about the past, as all great ... Read more