Motel Nirvana: Dreaming of the New Age in the American Desert

Religion & Spirituality

McGrath, Melanie

New Age & Spirituality

HARPER/COLLINS

Motel Nirvana (Dreaming of the New Age in the American Desert)

Flamingo

The Long Exile : A True Story of Deception and Survival Amongst the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic

History

Americas

Fourth Estate

LONG EXILE

Harper-perennial

The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys – the locals of the old East End.
For more than a century, ‘hopping’ was the main event in the East End calendar – an annual expedition of over 200,000 East Enders out to the Kentish countryside to look for casual work picking hops and stripping bines.
Aunt Daisy was one of those day trippers. For her, the train ride from London Bridge to Faversham was a kind of magic that she always passed in a rush of sensation. To be away from the tight hustle of the city and lose herself in the open spaces and pollen mists of the Kentish summer provided her with a succour that would last her through the long winters back in London. Her delicate demeanour had never really suited the smutty terraces of the East End; rather she considered herself a countrywoman who just so happened to be stranded in the city.
Married young and yet not unhappily to Harold Baker, a closet homosexual who would never consummate their union, at some early point she wrote an escape clause into her life that shielded her from her life's difficult realities. It was this resolve, a kind of armour born out by her dreamy nature, that more than anything else marked Aunt Daisy out as an East Ender.
Thoughtful, moving and beautifully rendered, Hopping captures the essence of ordinary family lives often obscured from history during an extraordinary period in London's past. Regardless of era or circumstance, chartering the shift of the East End from a hive of poverty whose dimmed population toiled daily at the docks, to a Blitzed-out community that defiantly rose to confront the brutalities of World War II, through to the gamble and risk emanating from behind the glass and steel towers of today's Canary Wharf, Hopping stands as testament to the true East Ender disposition – an agility of spirit to endure your lot and get by.

Hopping

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Harper Collins Promotion

Xsilvertown Works

A British woman traveling the American Southwest surveying the range of the New Age movement describes meetings with UFOlogists, angels, inner children, and nature worshippers

Picador USA

Pica Books

Charting the real life fate of the East End Crommelin family from the turn of the century to modern times, HOPPING explores the bonds that hold families fast to one another. Depicting a time when people made much of simple pleasures, kept each other's confidences, however unwelcome, and held loyalty to one's own as paramount, it is set against the backdrop of a disappearing East End landscape soon to be erased by war and the all-consuming social change that followed, perfectly capturing the essence of ordinary family lives during an extraordinary period in London's past.

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