The Clothes On Their Backs
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In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home?
This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live.
Set against the backdrop of a London from the 1950s to the present day, The Clothes on Their Backs is a wise and tender novel about the clothes we choose to wear, the personalities we dress ourselves in, and about how they define us all.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9781844085422 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Grant, Linda | |
| PUBLISHER : Little, Brown Book Group | PUBLICATION DATE : April 02, 2009 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom | IMPRINT : Virago Press Ltd |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 212 g
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