Homing - Hardcover

Moffat, Alistair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719562384 ISBN 13: 9780719562389

Publisher: John Murray, 2003

Synopsis

After the deaths of his grandmother and his father, Andrew Moffat dicovered that they had kept hidden what they saw as a shaming secret. Moffat soon realised that he had grown up in ignorance of his family's past.

'Homing' captures a lost world of terraced council houses, gardens with picket fences and of local grocery vans. Rereuns of the Second World War played out among the potato patches, of heroes like Dan Dare, Digby and Jack Brabham.

He describes his search for the truth about his grandmother's family, seeking out the places where she lived in early life. As he uncovers more of her story he begins to understand why she, his father and others have been so secretive.

Alistair Moffat's beautiful memoir recreates his childhood landscape and the landscape of the past with equal immediacy.

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Review:

What is important is the chatty and charming way Moffat makes our own cultural past accessible to us (Independent on Sunday)

Moving memoir (Publishing News)

Alistair Moffat writes with a rare lucidity (Glasgow Herald)

Will surely become a classic of its kind ... a realistically chill modern attitude towards the raw social and cultural limitations of the period (The Times)

Quaint but touching ... the book provides an equal dose of pathos and humour. Moffat describes a bygone era (Good Book Guide)

Book Description:

Alistair Moffat vividly recreates his working class childhood and describes the search to uncover his family secret

About this edition

• Publisher: John Murray
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0719562384
• ISBN 13: 9780719562389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224