Exit Wounds - A Story of Life, Love and Occasional Wars (Paperback)

Peter’s mother is dying. Born in England, and having spent most of her adult life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now lies on a hospital bed in the partitioned living room of his sister’s London house, her accent having overnight become posher than the Queen’s.

Peter has spent his life missing his Zimbabwean childhood, whether as a conscript in the Rhodesian army in the 1970s, writing about conflicts across the African continent and beyond or settling in New York with his English wife and transatlantic children. In his mother’s final months, he must come to terms with everything his family was – and wasn’t: the secrets they kept from one another, the stoicism that sometimes threatened to destroy them and the beauty of the wildly different places they called home.

In Exit Wounds, Peter Godwin considers the life of émigrés, exiles and refugees, and grieves the many losses that make life both magnificent and unbearable. With generations of history behind him, he brings us into the spaces that make us question, suffer and celebrate the lives we have among family and friends, and the healing of our own scars.

General

Imprint:	Pan Macmillan
Release date:	13 September 2024
Authors:	Peter Godwin
Dimensions:	234 x 157 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	274
ISBN-13:	978-1-77010-900-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Promotion > New Reads > Biography
LSN:	1-77010-900-5
Barcode:	9781770109001

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Exit wounds

Sun, 6 Oct 2024 | Review by: Steve B.

For any reader expecting a tale of Africa and the beauty of his previous books you will be disappointed. This is a dark miserable account of dementia and divorce. Not what was expected and to be honest a waist of money

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