Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood by Carolyn Slaughter - 2002

Hardback. Like New.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Doubleday, 2002-03-04. Hardcover. Good.

Doubleday, 2002-03-04. Hardcover. Like New. 2.5888 cent in x 21.7766 cent in x 13.9848 cent in. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post

(London: Doubleday, 2002) 0385603444. 8vo; original grey boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xii) + 254. Boards very slighly bumped; faint foxing to top edge. Very good condition. "What happened to me affected all of us - my mother, my father, my sisters and me: we all fell apart under the horror of it, and we all tried to pretend that there was no horror. Here, in her own words, prize-winning novelist Carolyn Slaughter tells the story of a family that destroyed itself from within, and of the ways she found to overcome terrors no child should have to bear. Growing up in a remote British protectorate (now Botswana) in the heart of the Kalahari Desert, Carolyn was inspired by the stark beauty of her childhood home. All too soon, this magnificent and isolated landscape would become a refuge for a six-year-old girl with nowhere to turn. Neither her mother, doomed by depression and guilt, nor her sister could shield her from the most terrible of… Read More

Doubleday, 2002. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the head of the spine and the top corners of the boards with a little wear to the dust wrapper as a result. Text complete, clean and tight. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (grey boards with white titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5½” (0.7 kg); 254pp; ISBN: 0385603444 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #173700|| Condition: