Till the Sun Grows Cold - A Mother's Compelling Memoir of the Life of her Daughter

A propos de l'auteur

Maggie McCune was born in Quetta, India, in 1942. Having attended boarding school in England she returned to India in 1962 where she met and married her husband; the family then came back to live in North Yorkshire. Maggie's career, apart from bringing up her four children single-handedly, has included a variety of jobs in schools, a fine art auctioneer and a publishing house.

Résumé

A highly unusual adventure and love story interwoven with Maggie McCune's own extraordinary life

Préface

A highly unusual adventure and love story interwoven with Maggie McCune's own extraordinary life

Texte suppl.

'McCune intereaves the story of her own upbringing in Assam and disastrous marriage with that of her magnetic and vivacious daughter, meditating poignantly on what it means for a mother to ''outlive her children, to bury them in the earth and walk away.''' Daily Telegraph

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Maggie McCune
• Edition: Headline
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 07.02.2000
• EAN: 9780747261421
• ISBN: 978-0-7472-6142-1
• Pages: 309
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Prose: non-fiction, Family & health, Biography and non-fiction prose, Family and health