This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for
which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite
work. It has a childhood at its centre - my childhood, a personal
past - and it is about the disruption of that fifties childhood by
the one my mother had lived out before me, and the stories she told
about it.' Intricate and inspiring, this unusual book uses
autobiographical elements to depict a mother and her daughter and
two working-class childhoods (Burnley in the 1920s, South London in
the 1950s) and to find a place for their stories in history and
politics, in psychoanalysis and feminism. 'Provocative and quite
dazzling in its ambitions. . . Beautifully written, intellectually
compelling' Judith Walkowitz
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