'Vivid and compelling and so moving... both painful and comforting
to read' Marian Keyes **A BOOK OF THE YEAR - GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER
(December 2022)** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS
AWARD AND AN POST IRISH BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2022** **AS BROADCAST
ON BBC RADIO 4** Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites
and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas
and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes
all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile,
her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his relatives in the
Caribbean, cooked elaborate meals on a whim and splurged money they
didn't have on cars, suits and shoes fit for a prince. Both of her
parents were waiting for paradise. It never came. Caught between
three worlds, Irish, Caribbean and British in 1960s Birmingham, Kit
and her brothers and sisters knew all the words to the best songs,
caught sticklebacks in jam jars and braved hunger and hellfire
until they could all escape. WITHOUT WARNING AND ONLY SOMETIMES is
a story of an extraordinary childhood and how a girl who grew up in
house where the Bible was the only book on offer went on to
discover a love of reading that inspires her to this day.
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