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My disappearing uncle
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- Book Synopsis
- 'A fascinating book about a remarkable family.' - Edmund de WaalMemoir, detective work and political history come together in this vivid and moving family biography told through the stories passed down by its undaunted women.Heard on a toboggan in the Austrian mountains, in the back seat of an overloaded Mini toiling through Europe, on a coal barge in Paris … here are tales that take us from Hungary, Germany and Italy to France, England and Argentina, and from the young actress in fi n de siècle Vienna to the 16-year-old schoolboy who disappeared for over fifty years. My Disappearing Uncle is a journey of discovery that explores the complicated dance between the present and the past.'Henderson's narrative … includes a wide range of memorable personalities as we move into and then beyond the Vienna of Freud, Mahler and Klimt … Centuries of turbulent, superbly narrated history.' - Jewish Chronicle
- About The Author
- KATHY HENDERSON is an award-winning children's writer, poet and illustrator with more than 30 published books, winner among other things of the Kurt Maschler Award, the Aesop Prize of the American Folklore Society and shortlisted for the Children's Poetry Prize. With a background in literature, music and oral history she also compiled My Song is My Own, 100 Women's Songs from the British Isles which has become the iconic book on the hidden voices of women. She has written for radio, visited hundreds of schools and libraries and been a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781803991221
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- The History Press, (16 March 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 304
- Weight
- 588 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 242 x 28 mm
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