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A Childhood Made Up: Living with my mother's madness Brent Meersman Author
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ISBN: 9780624089407 bzw. 0624089401, vermutlich in Englisch, Tafelberg, neu, E-Book, elektronischer Download.
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'I remembered how, when I was a small child supposed to be asleep, my mother would slip into bed behind me and hold me. She would be trembling. She couldn’t hide it no matter how young I was. ‘Go to sleep, go to sleep,’ she’d say, as if that would save us.' Brent Meersman’s poignant memoir of a humble and eccentric upbringing in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1970s and ’80s reads as a stirring eulogy to his mother, and a vivid snapshot of the times. His adoring mother, a horse-loving artist, received only rudimentary treatment for her schizophrenia; while his father battled a vicious whirlpool of alcohol-fuelled depression. 'A Childhood Made Up' is beautifully observed and filled with wry humour. Delicate yet brutal, this story pays testament to the power of love and the quiet heroism of resilience.
'I remembered how, when I was a small child supposed to be asleep, my mother would slip into bed behind me and hold me. She would be trembling. She couldn’t hide it no matter how young I was. ‘Go to sleep, go to sleep,’ she’d say, as if that would save us.' Brent Meersman’s poignant memoir of a humble and eccentric upbringing in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1970s and ’80s reads as a stirring eulogy to his mother, and a vivid snapshot of the times. His adoring mother, a horse-loving artist, received only rudimentary treatment for her schizophrenia; while his father battled a vicious whirlpool of alcohol-fuelled depression. 'A Childhood Made Up' is beautifully observed and filled with wry humour. Delicate yet brutal, this story pays testament to the power of love and the quiet heroism of resilience.
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A Childhood Made Up - Living with my mother's madness
~EN NW EB DL
ISBN: 9780624089407 bzw. 0624089401, vermutlich in Englisch, Tafelberg, neu, E-Book, elektronischer Download.
A Childhood Made Up: Brent Meersmans memoir of a humble yet eccentric upbringing in a Milnerton, Cape Town, flat in the 1970s and 1980s reads as a stirring eulogy to his schizophrenic mother, yet also as a vivid snapshot in time. Englisch, Ebook.
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