This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing

New York: Soho Press Inc., 2020. T4 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAISIE DOBBS SERIES OFFERS A DEEPLY PERSONAL MEMOIR OF HER FAMILY'S RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF THE WAR AND PRIVATION. 8.55"x5.75", 303 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather’s shellshock, her mother’s evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father’s torturous assignment to an explosives team during WWII; her parents’ years living with Romani Gypsies; and Jacqueline’s own childhood working on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception. An eye-opening and heartfelt portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing is the story of a childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.