This is an unusual and touching companion to Morrison's And When
Did You Last See Your Father, an unconventional and hugely
successful memoir which sold over 100,000 copies. In that book
Morrison's mother was a silent figure, a chameleon who consistently
sought to blend in as a conventional wife and mother, but who in
reality was anything but. This startling account uncovers her
secrets, demonstrating how Agnes O'Shea, Irish Roman Catholic and
newly qualified doctor, gradually reinvented herself to become Kim
Morrison, an English country wife and GP. It charts her years
working in a succession of British hospitals during the Second
World War, during which time she met and fell in love with Arthur
Morrison. The tale of her transformation is told through the
hilarious, passionate and disarmingly honest letters of their
tempestuous wartime romance, from the hospitals of Manchester to
the RAF camps of Azores. As always, Morrison keeps the reader with
him as he relentlessly searches for answers to questions that beset
him, constantly uncovering new possibilities. He is engagingly
frank, yet instinctively knows when the boundaries of privacy and
respect have been reached. He manages somehow to draw his mother
out of herself, bit by bit, until a quietly determined, sensitive
and courageous figure emerges. Morrison skilfully dodges the trap
of getting too bogged down with detail and conveys a vivid picture
of family conflict and a surprising view of the struggle of wartime
romance, depression, and above all, the soaring heights and
plunging depths of love. (Kirkus UK)
In his masterpiece of family literature, And When Did you Last See Your Father?, Blake Morrison's mother appears as an intriguing but mostly silent figure. This is her startling and touching story - and a son's search to discover the truth about the remarkable Kerry girl who qualified as a doctor in Dublin in 1942, worked in British hospitals throughout the war, and then reinvented herself again to adapt to a quieter post-war family life. At the heart of the book there's a passionate wartime love affair, seen through the frank, funny, furious letters his parents wrote during their courtship. It evokes a surprising picture of life and love in WWII. From the obstacles the lovers faced, to their moments of hilarity and joy Things My Mother Never Told Me is a revealing and poignant anatomy of family conflict, love, war, and finally marriage. Kim Morrison emerges quietly, magically from the shadows, a determined heroine for our times.
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