Alone

Pip Granger

ISBN 10: 0552155365 / ISBN 13: 9780552155366

Published by Corgi, 2007

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The only daughter of alcoholic parents novelist Pip Granger spent much of her childhood outside looking in.No strangers to the demon booze her parents were deeply involved in a passionate relationship that rose to exciting highs and plunged to terrible and often frightening lows. Drink explained the series of crises the furious rows and life-threatening accidents Pip had to contend with and it also explained why her home life was so very different from that of most other people she knew. Just after her first birthday her family was evicted from their cottage in Sussex for non-payment of rent - a pattern that was to recur throughout her childhood. Home became a place best avoided and soon Pip was spending time with her ne'er-do-well father in cafes snooker-halls and other low dives in London's Soho where she made a series of lasting friendships with the unlikeliest of people.Brave funny original and totally authentic Alone is a heartbreaking book about alcohol abuse parental neglect and the courage of a little girl to find her own way through a trouble-filled world.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alone
• Publisher: Corgi
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0552155365
• ISBN 13: 9780552155366
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 198W x 127H x 21D millimeters 198 millimeters width by 127 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 413 grams

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Synopsis

Brave, funny and authentic, Alone is a heartbreaking memoir of growing up in 1950s London in a world of poverty, alcohol abuse, parental neglect — and the courage of a little girl to find her way through the trouble-filled maze.

About the Author

Part of Pip Granger's early childhood was spent in the back seat of a light aircraft as her father smuggled brandy, tobacco and books across the English Channel to be sold in 1950s Soho, where she lived above the Two Is Cafe in Old Compton Street. She worked as a Special Needs teacher in Hackney in the 1980s, before quitting teaching to pursue her long cherished ambition to write. She now lives in Somerset with her husband.