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Letters From Brenda
- Author
- Emma Kennedy
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 12 May 2022
- Run Time
- 10 hours 8 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Biography and non-fiction prose, Published diaries, letters and journals, Family history, tracing ancestors, Memoirs
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
This heartbreakingly funny book about the impact of discovering lost letters is a celebration of correspondence; those lost acts of penned love, the vivid snapshots in time scattered back through a life.
It is also about a childhood shrouded in shame, the lies Brenda told her family, the madness that set in, and ultimately what it means to be a daughter and a mother. Finally, Emma allows herself to explore what she couldn't while she was growing up: the question of who her mother really was.
(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Critics Review
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Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It's a lovely LOVELY book
Marian Keyes
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Remarkable
Dawn French
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A very personal and poignant detective story
Sue Perkins
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A beautiful, hilarious and bittersweet book
Mel Giedroyc
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This book made me cry
Sara Cox
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Absolutely stunning
Emma Freud
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Absolutely riveting
Alice Arnold
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This honest, insightful book is a touching tribute to her complex, inimitable mother
Daily Express
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A moving study in how to love an unreasonable person
Times Literary Supplement
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Details
- Author
- Emma Kennedy
- Narrator
- Emma Kennedy, Juliet Stevenson, Rafa Euba
- Duration
- 10 hours 8 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 May 2022
- ISBN
- 9781529371994
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Biography and non-fiction prose, Published diaries, letters and journals, Family history, tracing ancestors, Memoirs
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
After her mother, Brenda, passed away and her father sold the family home, broadcaster and writer Emma Kennedy found herself floundering, unable to make peace with the complex, charismatic woman who had been her mum. And then they found the letters . . .This heartbreakingly funny book about the impact of discovering lost letters is a celebration of correspondence; those lost acts of penned love, the vivid snapshots in time scattered back through a life.It is also about a childhood shrouded in shame, the lies Brenda told her family, the madness that set in, and ultimately what it means to be a daughter and a mother. Finally, Emma allows herself to explore what she couldn't while she was growing up: the question of who her mother really was.(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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