Without Warning and Only Sometimes - Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood

A painful, heartfelt, brilliantly funny childhood memoir from the acclaimed and bestselling author of MY NAME IS LEON

About the author

Kit de Waal is the author of MY NAME IS LEON, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, THE TRICK TO TIME, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a short story collection, SUPPORTING CAST, and a memoir, WITHOUT WARNING & ONLY SOMETIMES, which was shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. She is also editor of the COMMON PEOPLE anthology. MY NAME IS LEON was recently adapted as a film for BBC Two.

Summary

A painful, heartfelt, brilliantly funny childhood memoir from the acclaimed and bestselling author of MY NAME IS LEON

Additional text

I loved it and couldn't put it down. Both joyous and heartbreaking, it captures an era and is also a beautiful tribute to sibling love, and a completely compelling story of how one girl became a reader

Product details

• Authors: Kit De Waal
• Publisher: Tinder Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2022
• EAN: 9781472284839
• ISBN: 978-1-4722-8483-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 218 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Midlands, Birmingham (UK), FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Adolescence