Winner of the Costa Biography Award 2006.
Judges' comment: "From a loveless wartime childhood comes a generous and loveable memoir written from a child's-eye view. Utterly lacking in self-pity, it's laugh-out-loud funny."
| Primary Genre | Biographies & Autobiographies |
Mum and Dad - Squibs and Bert - were a complete mystery to Brian Thompson as he grew up in Cambridge and London during the 1940s. His mother danced with the Yanks all night and slept under a fake fur coat all day, and when his father bothered to come home he resolutely discouraged Brian in everything. Other children were evacuated out of the big cities, but Brian found himself travelling into London, where he spent much of the Blitz with an eccentric swarm of relations. Keeping Mum presents a portrait of boyhood as rich and mysterious as anything fiction can provide.
Keeping Mum features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Keeping Mum is available in Paperback
Keeping Mum was written by Brian Thompson and published by Atlantic Books
Keeping Mum has 232 pages
