Red, Red Robin
My Long Goodbye to Home
Will be published approx. on 6. May 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-4746-1992-9 (ISBN)
Description
Reviews / Votes
Disarmingly frank, unfailingly perceptive, and crammed with evocative social and cultural detail, Alison Light's Red, Red Robin joins the very front rank of memoirs of post-war Britain -- DAVID KYNASTON A winning blend of personal memories, evoked with startling clarity, and fascinating social history. As all the best memoirs do, Red, Red Robin made me reflect on my own upbringing and see the past again through the bewildered eyes of childhood -- CLARE CHAMBERS, author of SMALL PLEASURES A beautifully wrought book. Rich in personal, social and cultural detail. Shows us the complexity, strangeness and beauty of an individual life being created in a world still haunted and scarred by war. Honest, moving, optimistic -- DAVID ALMONDMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4746-1992-9 (9781474619929)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Alison Light is a writer and critic. Her book A Radical Romance won the PEN Ackerley prize for memoir. Her other books include the much-acclaimed Mrs Woolf and the Servants and Common People: The History of an English Family, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She is an Honorary Fellow in History and English at Pembroke College Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.