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Silver River (Paperback, New Ed)
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Silver River (Paperback, New Ed)
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Loot Price R232
Discovery Miles 2 320
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'Other children had imaginary friends; I had a fictional mother, a
siren from the southern hemisphere.' Daisy Goodwin's mother left
home when Daisy was five and embarked upon a bohemian life in
Swanage. Daisy was brought up by her respectable father and her
meticulous German stepmother and adored her glamorous mother from
afar. She made sense of her mother's difference and of her absence
through her imaginings about the family's unstable South American
history. It was only when Daisy underwent a deep depression
following the birth of her own daughter, that she felt the weight
of her mother's abandonment and the burden of her family's past
take root in her own life. Daisy's family, on her mother's side, is
as eccentric and wayward as any family could be. Her Irish
forebears - a Catholic and a Protestant - were driven from their
southern Irish home and emigrated to Argentina. Their history there
is one of vast wealth rapidly acquired and just as rapidly lost, of
gambling, of horses, of suicides and breakdowns, of isolation in
the bleak expanses of the Pampas and of the heights of high
society. In this extraordinary memoir, the contrasts between
Argentina and England serve as a metaphor for the clashes in the
author's life, caught between two parents, two countries and two
cultures. Intensely personal, funny and unsentimental, 'Silver
River' explores universal questions about families, identity and
growing up in a way that has never been done before.
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