Homing - Hardcover

Moffat, Alistair

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7 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719562384 ISBN 13: 9780719562389

Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2003

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After the deaths of his grandmother and his father, Andrew Moffat dicovered that they had kept hidden what they saw as a shaming secret. Moffat soon realised that he had grown up in ignorance of his family's past. 'Homing' captures a lost world of terraced council houses, gardens with picket fences and of local grocery vans. Rereuns of the Second World War played out among the potato patches, of heroes like Dan Dare, Digby and Jack Brabham. He describes his search for the truth about his grandmother's family, seeking out the places where she lived in early life. As he uncovers more of her story he begins to understand why she, his father and others have been so secretive. Alistair Moffat's beautiful memoir recreates his childhood landscape and the landscape of the past with equal immediacy.

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About the Author:

Alistar Moffat was born in 1950. After school he took degrees at St Andrew's, Edinburgh and London universities. In 1976 he began a five-year period in charge of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, afterwards moving to Scottish Television, latterly as Director of Programmes and Chief Executive of Network Production. In 1999 he resigned these posts and came back to live in the Borders. His previous books include The Sea Kingdoms: The Story of Celtic Britain and Ireland and The Borders, which for many weeks was on the Scottish bestseller lists, both of which have been made into television series.

Review:

'What is important is the chatty and charming way Moffat makes our own cultural past accessible to us' -- Independent on Sunday 'Moving memoir' -- Publishing News 20040305 'Alistair Moffat writes with a rare lucidity' -- Glasgow Herald 20040305 'Will surely become a classic of its kind ... a realistically chill modern attitude towards the raw social and cultural limitations of the period' -- The Times 20040904 'Quaint but touching ... the book provides an equal dose of pathos and humour. Moffat describes a bygone era' -- Good Book Guide 20040901

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