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Author/Contributor(s): |
Harding, Jeremy
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Publisher: |
Verso
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Date: |
11/22/2010
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Binding: |
Paperback
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Condition: |
NEW
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When Jeremy Harding was a child, his mother, Maureen, told him he was adopted. She described his natural parents as a Scandinavian sailor and a “little Irish girl” who worked in a grocery. It was only later, as Harding set out to look for traces of his birth mother, that he began to understand who his adoptive mother really was—and the benign make-believe world she built for herself and her little boy. Evoking a magical childhood spent in transit between west London and a decrepit houseboat on the banks of the River Thames,
Mother Country is both a detective quest, as Harding searches through the public records for clues about his natural mother, and a rich social history of a lost London from the 1950s.
Mother Country is a powerful true story about a man looking for the mother he had never known and finding out how little he understood the one he had grown up with.
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