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Two Sisters (Hardcover)
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Two Sisters (Hardcover)
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'A book at once bold, magnanimous, heart-breaking and riveting'
HOWARD JACOBSON 'Beautiful. Affecting. Erudite.' SUSIE ORBACH TWO
SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison's
ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which
forged the way for a new genre of confessional memoir. 'She's gone,
that's all, and though there's no retrieving her I'd like to make
sense of who she was and what she became. It wasn't just that she
changed over time. She could change from day to day. Drink made it
worse but the origins went deeper. You never knew which you'd get,
the kind and loving Gill or her doppelganger. Two sisters.' Blake
Morrison has lost a sister and a half-sister in recent years. Both
are the subjects of this remarkable and heart-breaking memoir,
along with a forensic examination of sibling relationships in
history and literature. Blake's sister Gill struggled with
alcoholism for a large part of her life, and her shocking death is
the starting point for Two Sisters. Blake returns to their
childhood to search for the origins of her later difficulties, and
in doing so unearths the story behind his half-sister, Josie. As he
unravels these narratives, Blake deals movingly in the guilt and
shame that will be familiar to every person who has struggled with
addiction in their family. He is unflinching in doing so, and the
result is a book which provides testament to that common struggle,
as well as acknowledging the complex, hidden forces on which all
our lives are based. Two Sisters is the extraordinary new memoir
from the chronicler of human frailty, Blake Morrison.
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