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British Summer Time Begins de Ysenda Maxtone Graham

British Summer Time Begins

Autor Ysenda Maxtone Graham
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 iul 2020
Praise for Terms & Conditions

'Ysenda Maxtone Graham has the beadiness and nosiness of the best investigative reporter, the wit of Jane Austen and a take on life which is like no one else's' A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard

'The most brilliant, hilarious book. My book of the year' India Knight

'Funny, bloodcurdling and moving . . . this will make old boarding-school girls sigh with nostalgia, and everyone else sigh with relief at having avoided the experience' Daily Mail

'A funny, vivid and excruciating book, which has left me filled with admiration for the brave, damaged survivors of this lost world' Virginia Nicholson, The Times
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ISBN-13: 9781408710555
ISBN-10: 1408710552
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 149 x 224 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group

Descriere

From the author of the beloved Terms & Conditions, British Summer Time Begins is a delightful, nostalgic and joyous celebration of summer holidays, told in Maxtone Graham's signature hilarious style.

Recenzii

This book has enough stories for a hundred novels . . . it is unbearably touching, probably because it is tales of children; their vulnerability, their talents, their dreams. It recalls a shabbier, parochial England . . . I wept
[A] joyously addictive history of British summer holidays . . . Maxtone Graham is a wonderfully spry and eloquent writer . . . she has a fine ear for others' words - and a high sense of comedy
Hilarious, nostalgic and tragic in turns, this captivating social history is a must
I defy anyone who lived in it not to be irresistibly transported back to their eight-year-old self, reliving the wild, eccentric, poor-yet-rich fun of pre-internet, pre-neurotic-parented childhood. This is a joyous book, one to make you smile in recognition, yearn to talk to your best pals from the time and wish to record your own memories
This splendid book rings bells galore . . . with her beady eye, Maxtone Graham keeps things tight and purposeful. The sweet aroma of nostalgia is never far away . . . this perfect little book serves as both a celebration, and a lament
A wonderfully evocative and unashamedly nostalgic account of how our childhood minds were formed
British Summer Time Begins does a remarkable job of awakening the reader's deepest and most tender memories: with
a deceptively light touch it took me by the hand, and led me across sunlit lawns towards my own childhood . . . Graham evokes the muted magic of empty hours and nearsilences

Glorious nostalgia . . . A Miss Marple of memory, she detects all the things that made us us . . . Almost every page of this glorious book triggers a Proustian rush of recollection . . . Lots of books have tried to capture the essence of the summer holidays. Maxtone Graham's is the best. There are moments when the quality of her noticing allied to a deep sympathy for the men and women who lent her their younger selves achieves a rare poetry
British Summer Time Begins is shot through with brilliant phrases and vignettes that have nothing and everything to do with the subject at hand . . . I wonder whether Maxtone Graham has founded a new school of historical writing
This hugely enjoyable book, ranging from 1930 to 1980, is not just about seaside holidays. Its subject is that 'vast stretch of untimetabled time' which began with the school bell ringing for the last time in July and went on until lessons began again in September. Drawing on the memories of dozens of people, it's a wonderful portrait of long summer weeks when so many of us, free from adult scrutiny ('My parents had no idea where I was'), found our true selves through play
School's out! Those final clangings of the bell, when summer term ended and you walked out through the gates into freedom, were some of the most sublime moments of childhood.

From the author of the beloved Terms & Conditions comes this highly entertaining, joyous and sometimes wistful chronicle of the Great British Childhood Summer: Julys and Augusts when the conforming term-time self was cast off and you could become the person you really were. Could it be that those unscheduled days were in fact the most important and formative of our lives?

'I defy anyone who lived in it not to be irresistibly transported back to their eight-year-old self, reliving the wild, eccentric, poor-yet-rich fun of pre-internet, pre-neurotic-parented childhood. This is a joyous book, one to make you smile in recognition, yearn to talk to your best pals from the time and wish to record your own memories' Melanie Reid, The Times


'[A] joyously addictive history of British summer holidays . . . Maxtone Graham is a wonderfully spry and eloquent writer . . . she has a fine ear for others' words - and a high sense of comedy' Laura Cumming, Observer


'British Summer Time Begins is shot through with brilliant phrases and vignettes that have nothing and everything to do with the subject at hand . . . I wonder whether Maxtone Graham has founded a new school of historical writing' Tom Crewe, London Review of Books