Without Warning and Only Sometimes : Quick Reads 2024

Kit de Waal

ISBN 10: 103541368X / ISBN 13: 9781035413683

Published by Headline Publishing Group Apr 2024, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Without Warning and Only Sometimes : Quick Reads 2024
• Publisher: Headline Publishing Group Apr 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 103541368X
• ISBN 13: 9781035413683
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 197W x 128H x 8D millimeters 197 millimeters width by 128 millimeters height by 8 millimeters depth
• Weight: 98 grams

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Synopsis

Kit de Waal and her brother and sisters had a hard childhood in the West Midlands. Her Irish mother didn't feed them, didn't believe in Christmas or birthdays, and thought the world would end in 1975. Her father saved all his money to return to the Caribbean, where he planned to make a new life without them. At school, their faces just didn't fit in.

This is the story of how Kit and her brother and sisters helped each other escape, and what gave Kit the strength to keep living.

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.