Mummy's Legs
by Kate Bingham | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1860494897 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1860494897 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Molyneux of Oxford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on 2/11/2005
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Sarah sits at the top of the stairs, just below the study's thin pine door, staring down blindly into the empty hall, through the slit window and out into the street. Ready to vanish at a moment's notice, she waits for the argument to begin.
Sarah's life has been governed by the violent moodswings and dependency of her mother, Catherine. At the age of 10, following Catherine's attempted suicide, Sarah is sent away briefly from their London home to Yorkshire, to stay with Catherine's cousin--who also has a recent tragedy of her own to conceal. Sarah, a matter-of-fact child, gives us a clear-eyed view of the troubled adult world she inhabits, along with her unshakeable belief that by being "Mummy's legs" she can help her mother regain happiness.
Written in a series of lyrical flashbacks, award-winning poet Kate Bingham's novel is an accomplished, assured debut. Never sentimental, she charts the emotional course of a dysfunctional family, successfully intertwining many stories, merging grief, loss, obssessive love and hatred into a coherent and moving account of Sarah's survival into stable adulthood--but an adulthood in which she continues to be
Sarah sits at the top of the stairs, just below the study's thin pine door, staring down blindly into the empty hall, through the slit window and out into the street. Ready to vanish at a moment's notice, she waits for the argument to begin.
Sarah's life has been governed by the violent moodswings and dependency of her mother, Catherine. At the age of 10, following Catherine's attempted suicide, Sarah is sent away briefly from their London home to Yorkshire, to stay with Catherine's cousin--who also has a recent tragedy of her own to conceal. Sarah, a matter-of-fact child, gives us a clear-eyed view of the troubled adult world she inhabits, along with her unshakeable belief that by being "Mummy's legs" she can help her mother regain happiness.
Written in a series of lyrical flashbacks, award-winning poet Kate Bingham's novel is an accomplished, assured debut. Never sentimental, she charts the emotional course of a dysfunctional family, successfully intertwining many stories, merging grief, loss, obssessive love and hatred into a coherent and moving account of Sarah's survival into stable adulthood--but an adulthood in which she continues to be
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