Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood - Softcover
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BRIAN THOMPSON was born in Lambeth, London in 1935. After vigorous rescue remedies applied by two grammar schools, he read English at Cambridge. Since 1973 he has written for a living as a radio and television playwright and documentary film maker. His first volume of memoir, Keeping Mum, was published by Atlantic in 2006 and the second volume, Clever Girl, was published in 2007. He is also the author of several acclaimed biographies including A Monkey Among Crocodiles and The Nightmare of a Victorian Bestseller. The Widow's Secret is his first novel. He lives in Oxford.
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A a beautifully judged account of an era usually doused in generalised sentiment -- Daily Telegraph Beautifully written and enormously entertaining -- The Scotsman Funny and terrifying in turns -- The Sunday Times One of the funniest - and darkest - war memoirs you'll ever read... a spellbinding story. -- Daily Mail The prefect antidote to the 'misery memior'. -- The Judges, Costa Book Award 2006 for Biography
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- PublisherAtlantic Books (UK)
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1843544989
- ISBN 13 9781843544982
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages234
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