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Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times

by Kit de Waal

Hardback (unsigned) £16.99
Published 18th August 2022
Signed first edition £16.99
First edition, first printing, signed by the author
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‘Vivid and compelling and so moving… both painful and comforting to read’ Marian Keyes
**A BOOK OF THE YEAR - GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER (December 2022)**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD AND AN POST IRISH BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2022**
**AS BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 4**

Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his relatives in the Caribbean, cooked elaborate meals on a whim and splurged money they didn’t have on cars, suits and shoes fit for a prince. Both of her parents were waiting for paradise. It never came.

Caught between three worlds, Irish, Caribbean and British in 1960s Birmingham, Kit and her brothers and sisters knew all the words to the best songs, caught sticklebacks in jam jars and braved hunger and hellfire until they could all escape.

WITHOUT WARNING AND ONLY SOMETIMES is a story of an extraordinary childhood and how a girl who grew up in house where the Bible was the only book on offer went on to discover a love of reading that inspires her to this day.

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Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times
by Kit de Waal

ISBN
9781472284839

Publisher
Headline Publishing Group

Binding
Hardback

Publication date
Aug. 18, 2022

Dimensions
21.8cm x 14.4cm x 3.0cm