Original tales by remarkable writers
Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home
In these pages on Yorkshire, you'll find two unique memoirs. 'The Yorkshire Years' is Cathy Rentzenbrink's deeply moving account of returning to Snaith, where her brother Matty was knocked down by a car over twenty years before. 'The Island upon the Moor' traces a powerful journey - from a carefree childhood in the village of Holme-upon-Spalding Moor - to surviving dark periods of depression, by Victoria Hennison.
Cathy Rentzenbrink grew up in Yorkshire, spent many years in London, and now lives in Cornwall. She is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize, and the acclaimed memoirs A Manual for Heartache and Dear Reader. Everyone Is Still Alive is her first novel. Victoria Hennison was born in Yorkshire and still lives in the county today, in a small village with her husband and children.
Title: Hometown Tales: Yorkshire
Author: Hennison, Victoria,Rentzenbrink, Cathy
ISBN: 9781474606127
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Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Publication Date: 2018-06-28
Number of Pages: 160
Weight: 0.2601 kg
Profoundly moving . . . Rentzenbrink offers a message of enormous hope for anybody who is going through loss, grief or trauma . . . She emerges from this unflinching memoir with dignity, strength and an enormous heart - SUNDAY TIMES on THE LAST ACT OF LOVE
Extraordinary . . . An honest, heartbreaking, uplifting account of family tragedy. Read it