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THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE HOUSE IBD

SILVERWOOD BOOKS
08 / 2024
9781800422827
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Sinopsis

You canâÇÖt choose your mum and dad, even when they choose you.áIn my early teens I had a taste for horror comics. In one strip I read of a handsome young couple at last alone in their honeymoon suite. He is crisply suited, clean-cut. She, lovely in her wedding finery, offers him the chance to watch her disrobe.áThe bride is not shy. She reveals herself, frame by frame, to be a hideous crone gloating at having tricked her new husband. He is unfazed, setting her to screaming as he removes his own head to stow it, grinning still, under his arm. Years later, when I thought of writing a memoir or fictionalised account of my parentsâÇÖ marriage, the title I toyed with was âÇÖThe Hag and the HeadâÇÖ.áIf this gripping narration of a 1960s Fenland boyhood sometimes reads like fiction, the detailed evocation of characters and events, by turns humorous and traumatic, anchors it in remembered facts. The author does not soft-pedal the dysfunction at the core of a wide, supportive family in which the boy faces adult challenges, including jarring discoveries about his parentsâÇÖ separate and shared history.áVisitáwww.davidgbailey.comáand author Facebook page atábit.ly/D-G-B

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