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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.
Jan 2, 2022 · Keeping Mum is a delight, a story grounded in life’s harsh realities but which knows that light actually does follow dark, just not quite how you expected it to.
Author: Brian Thompson. Summary: Mum and Dad - Squibs and Bert - were a complete mystery to Brian Thompson, as he grew up in Cambridge and London during the 1940s. His mother danced with the Yanks all night and slept under a fake fur coat all day, and when his father bothered to come home, he resolutely discouraged Brian in everything.
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.
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 he's just lost his job.
Danny Malooley's life is falling apart. He is a single parent with an eleven-year-old son, Will, who has not spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash fourteen months ago. He's being...
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.