Two Sisters

Blake Morrison

Blue Door GB

From the daughter of the bestselling author of Father Joe: the poignant and ultimately hopeful memoir of a young girl’s struggle to live a normal childhood in the chaotic seventies, and to overcome sexual abuse by her famous father Earlier this year, Tony Hendra’s memoir, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The book detailed his life as a comedian who launched the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase and helped create such cult classics as This Is Spinal Tap, while he struggled with inner demons including alcohol and drug abuse. But there was a glaring omission in his supposed tell-all confessional: his sexual abuse of his daughter, Jessica Hendra, when she was a young girl.
 After more than thirty years of silence, Hendra has decided to reveal the truth. In this poignant memoir, she reveals the full story behind the New York Times article that rocked the world and detailed her father’s crimes. But Jessica’s story is no footnote to her father’s story. No One Was Listening is also the inspiring story of her own journey, and how she was finally able to find healing within, after years of struggling with anorexia, bulimia, and low self-esteem. Set against the backdrop of the chaotic seventies, Hendra’s memoir follows Jessica and her sister Kathy as they strove to make a normal life for themselves amidst the madness, sex, and drug abuse that her parents and their friends―many of the household names in the world of show business―participated in. No One Was Listening reveals the hope and heartache of a young girl who was faced with a loss of innocence at an early age, who faced a slow and painful recovery, and who finally found contentment and peace within.

How to Cook Your Daughter: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Hendra, Jessica

Community & Culture

Harper

Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose heretical invention was to change history. Sixty odd years later he died - robbed of his business, his printing presses, and, so he thought, his immortality. Johann Gutenberg, master printer, charmer, conman and visionary was the man who invented 'artificial writing' and printed the Gutenberg Bible.In his dazzling first novel Morrison gives us Gutenberg's 'testament' - his justification, dictated to one of the young scribes his invention has put out of work. Through the words of his endearing, exasperating creation Morrison conjures up the colourful, plague-ridden world of fifteenth-century Europe, the rich burghers, concupiscent daughters, wily apprentices, careless scribes - and the craftsmen who pioneered the art of print. But, above all, there is the exasperating, endearing and finally haunting figure of Gutenberg himself- a man who gambled everything - money, honour, friendship and a woman's love - on the greatest invention of the last millennium.

The Justification of Johann Gutenberg

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Random House]

In his masterpiece of family literature, "And When Did You Last See Your Father?", Blake Morrison's mother appears as an intriguing but mostly silent figure. This is her startling and touching story - and a son's search to discover the truth about the remarkable Kerry girl who qualified as a doctor in Dublin in 1942, worked in British hospitals throughout the war, and then reinvented herself again to adapt to a quieter post-war family life. At the heart of the book, there's a passionate wartime love affair, seen through the frank, funny, furious letters his parents wrote during their courtship. It evokes a surprising picture of life and love in WWII. "Things my Mother Never Told Me" is a revealing and poignant anatomy of family conflict, love, war and finally marriage. Kim Morrison emerges quietly, magically form the shadows, a determined heroine for our times.

Things My Mother Never Told Me

Arts & Literature

Vintage Books USA

The Last Weekend [paperback] Blake Morrison [Jan 01, 2012] ... 0099581965

The Last Weekend

Literary

Vintage

Penguin Modern Poets 1: Volume One: James Fenton, Kit Wright, Blake Morrison Bk. 1

Penguin Modern Poets: James Fenton, Kit Wright, Blake Morrison Bk. 1

JAMES FENTON

Kit Wright

Poetry

Penguin

Following the acclaimed memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father,? Blake Morrison sets out to discover the many things he never knew about his mother's past. Through a series of letters from his parents' passionate World War II courtship, he uncovers a startling, touching story: a mysterious name change, a religious conundrum, and a frustrated career. Evocative and candid, Things My Mother Never Told Me paints an unforgettable picture of a quietly determined heroine and of a son's search to learn the truth about her.

Things my Mother Never Told Me

Granta Books

This is Blake Morrison's memoir of his father, Dr Arthur Morrison. It shows a son asking who his father really was. Was he the man seen through a seven-year-old's eyes, jumping queues, or the sexual charmer seen by a 17-year-old? Or was he the figure, so hard to recognize, on his death-bed?

And When Did You Last See Your Father?

History & Criticism

Parenting & Relationships

"For his sixtieth birthday friends of the distinguished poet, critic and biographer Ian Hamilton, have gathered to offer an international festschrift to honour his writings and the remarkable influence he has exerted on his generation." "The result is an unrivalled portrait of literary London for the last thirty years, a Who's Who? of Britain's best poets, novelists, and playwrights resulting in a unique document filled with wit and humour ... a must."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Another round at the pillars: Essays, poems & reflections on Ian Hamilton

ian-mcewan

Michael Hofmann

Peter Dale

Hugo Williams

CRAIG RAINE

Colin Falck

Drew Motion

Karl Miller

Dan Jacobson Clive

Simon Gray

David Harsent

Alan Jenkins

Julian. Barnes

Cargo Press

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