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Jun 11, 2020 · My Review of Keeping Mum. Danny and Will have a few problems! What a lovely, lovely story Keeping Mum is. Before commenting on the narrative, I just need to say how apt the title is as Will elects not to speak after the death of Liz, his Mum, but as important is both Will and Danny’s desire to keep Liz’s memory alive. They need to keep Mum.
May 2, 2020 · Reeling from that loss, he has been keeping his head scarcely above water from one day to the next. In for a rude awakening when he is fired from his construction job, his landlord threatening literal bodily harm if he can’t make rent, Danny resolves to become a street performer.
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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.
Aug 27, 2020 · We’ve been dancing with delight at the reviews coming in for James Gould-Bourn’s fantastically funny and heart-warming debut Keeping Mum since it was published in the UK by Trapeze in June and in the US by Scribner under the title Bear Necessity this month.
Keeping Mum Hardcover – 11 Jun. 2020. by James Gould-Bourn (Author) 4.4 154 ratings. See all formats and editions. CHOSEN FOR DAILY MAIL'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020. 'Touching and often hilarious... A truly joyful read' Press & Journal. ********** Danny Malooley's life is falling apart.
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One of Kobo’s ‘Best Books of 2020’ Danny Malooley’s life is falling apart. 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.
But Danny can't keep up the ruse forever...'Uplifting'Woman & HomeA surprising, laugh-out-loud and uplifting story of a father and son reconnecting in the most unlikely of circumstances. For fans...
