Read your favorite books with All You Can Books. Works on all major devices. Choose from over 40,000+ eBooks, AudioBooks, Courses & Podcasts now - for Free!
Discover all you need to know about Books. Features, Pros and Contras. Download Books App for Free. Secure & Quick Download !
iapcollege.com has been visited by 10K+ users in the past month
Accelerate your career as a professional bookkeeper. Register today to get certified. Get a Certificate as a Professional Bookkeeper in 6 weeks online. Register today.
- Fall Sale: 70% off Registration
amazon.co.uk has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month
Browse new releases, best sellers or classics & find your next favourite book. Huge selection of books in all genres. Free UK delivery on eligible orders
Search results
Dec 10, 2020 · 232 pages ; 23 cm. What's it like to be the man of the house when you're still only a boy? In 'Keeping Mum', Brian Thompson describes such a story. Whilst other children were evacuated out of the big cities, Brian found himself travelling into London, and spent much of the war with an eccentric swarm of relations. Costa Award, 2006. Notes.
Jun 11, 2020 · So what is Keeping Mum about? It’s the story of a father and son learning to reconnect after an accident tears their family apart. It’s also about dancing panda bears.
Summary: Crystal clear prose, a dry sense of humour and a complete lack of self-pity elevates Keeping Mum from the swollen ranks of the "poor me" memoirs into something that is really quite sublime. Highly recommended.
Our Reading Guides include a summary, discussion questions for book clubs, book reviews, and an author bio.
Jan 2, 2022 · Keeping Mum is that rare and treasured meditation on grief, a novel which doesn’t shirk from portraying the grim realities of loss and grief, and wholesale emotional havoc they create, but which offers hope that maybe, just maybe, there is a way forward that doesn’t rely on heeding the dubious advice of folk wisdom.
He’s a single parent with an eleven-year-old son, Will, who hasn’t spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash fourteen months ago. He’s being pursued by a dodgy landlord for unpaid rent and, to make matters worse, he’s just lost his job on a building site.
Jan 1, 2006 · Book by Brian Thompson. Genres Nonfiction History World War II Biography. 232 pages, Hardcover. First published January 1, 2006. Book details & editions.
