Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit de Waal

Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit de WaalVivid and compelling and so moving Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' Marian KeyesAS BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 4From the award winning author of MY NAME IS LEON comes a childhood memoir set to become a classic: stinging, warm hearted, and true. 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

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