EAN: 9781472284846

WITHOUT WARNING AND ONLY SOMETIMES - KIT DE WAA...

'Vivid and compelling and so moving... both painful and comforting to read' Marian Keyes **A
BOOK OF THE YEAR - GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER (December 2022)****SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY
BAG READERS AWARD AND AN POST IRISH BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2022****AS BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 4**
Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely
cooked  forbade Christmas and birthdays  worked as a cleaner  nurse and childminder sometimes
all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile  her father stuffed barrels
full of goodies for his relatives in the Caribbean  cooked elaborate meals on a whim and
splurged money they didn't have on cars  suits and shoes fit for a prince. Both of her parents
were waiting for paradise. It never came. Caught between three worlds  Irish  Caribbean and
British in 1960s Birmingham  Kit and her brothers and sisters knew all the words to the best
songs  caught sticklebacks in jam jars and braved hunger and hellfire until they could all
escape. WITHOUT WARNING AND ONLY SOMETIMES is a story of an extraordinary childhood and how a
girl who grew up in house where the Bible was the only book on offer went on to discover a love
of reading that inspires her to this day.

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