A Change of Direction
Brand: Pocket Books
weight: 75.0 g
Units in Stock: 21
Product Code: MLP/F/7
Product Condition: New
A father tries to care for a son transformed by war.
A young man is caught between new love and his stifling parents.
A mother imagines a good life for her daughter.
An old lady contemplates a lost past.
Frances Thimann’s beautifully written stories explore the impact of change on the lives of a vivid range of characters.
“I’m sitting there in the dark for a long time listening to him moaning, my boy Will, and it’s like it’s all connected, what’s happened with him, and the other lads which didn’t make it, the mums and dads and sweethearts, and them old pictures and carvings...’”
“Frances Thimann’s stories have a delicacy and poignancy; her characters are often fragile souls in a hard world. This is distinctive and moving writing.” Roberta Dewa
All four oral history booklets and CDs.
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Lemons for Chamberlain: The Life and Backbench Career of Geoffrey Mander MP
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In 1929 Geoffrey Mander (1882-1962) was elected as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton East. He remained an MP until 1945, his career spanning the depression of the 1930s and the Second World War. He was involved in a wide range of political issues, gained a reputation for asking awkward...
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'War' booklet and CD
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In the 1980s and early 1990s Mantle Arts made a series of recordings of local people talking about their memories of living in North West Leicestershire. The oldest people recorded were born in the nineteenth century, and their memories range through two world wars, working in the pits, stone masonry,...
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