Hopping - Hardcover

Melanie McGrath

3.9

52 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007223668 ISBN 13: 9780007223664

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2007

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About the Author:

Melanie McGrath is the author of four previous books, `Motel Nirvana', `Hard, Soft & Wet', `Silvertown' and `The Long Exile'. She is a regular contributor for the Guardian, Independent and the Express. She lives in London.

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'One of the book's strengths lies in its evocative details...Most of all, though, this is a story of ordinary people living through the extraordinary period of two world wars, bearing the hardship with fortitude, and longing for those brief moments when they could escape.' Sunday Times`"Hopping" is a book of astonishing empathy, eloquence and understanding. It needs to be read slowly and carefully, as the dense network of love affairs and relations fills the equally tightly knitted net of East End streets before the Blitz. A subtle social texture develops of openness and secrecy, love and betrayal, survival and catastrophe.' Adam Nicolson, Guardian'A sublime successor to the beautiful "Silvertown", is a classic of its kind. Social history is personalised in a narrative that renders period detail and sophisticated psychology in a novelistic style.' Kate Saunders, The Times'McGrath is an engaging writer who is passionate about bringing her story alive. Daisy Cromelin would probably have never imagined that she would even be worth a line in the local newspaper, yet Melanie McGrath has found a quiet dignity and honesty in this most ordinary of ordinary lives.' Leo Hollis, Sunday Telegraph

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