Hold Back the Night - Softcover
Born into a joyless, volatile and, by turns, impoverished family, Rosemary Kingsland tells for the first time her story of how, at just thirteen, her life was transformed forever when she met and fell in love with the actor Richard Burton. In this extraordinary memoir the writer and journalist, recounts growing up first in India, then Wales, and finally, post-war London where she lived with her drunken, and endlessly scheming father and her melancholic, mother eking out a living with barely enough money for the basic necessities. Home life was an endless cycle of her father's flagrant infidelities and savage outbursts and her mother's breakdowns, often leaving Rosemary to see to her young siblings, all the while keeping a paper round and riding to school each day dreaming of something else - something better. In 1954, the young Richard Burton was causing a sensation in London's theatre land with both his talent as an actor and his arresting, brooding good looks commanding attention from producers and hoards of adoring fans alike. Rosemary first knew of him when she went with her father to hear a reading of Under Milk Wood at once captivated by his magnetic gaze. And here at the cor
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Rosemary Kingsland has been a novelist, ghostwriter and journalist and has written for the Sunday Times and the Evening Standard. Her late husband was the journalist and castaway Gerald Kingsland, with whom she had three sons. She lived in Nashville, Tennessee for 10 years in the 1980s-90s before returning to London, where she lives today.
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- PublisherArrow
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0099457989
- ISBN 13 9780099457985
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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