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Keeping Mum Gwyneth Lewis’s investigation begins with a police interrogation, then broadens to take in a mental hospital, where the subject is questioned by a psychiatrist. Finally, she uncovers angels in a sequence of sonnets, finding messengers from another realm inside our everyday lives, speaking to us through depression and bereavement.
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.
Keeping 13. Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
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.
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.
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.
