Clothes On Their Backs (Paperback)

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Paperback: 293 pages
Publisher: Little Brown (Mar 25 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1844085414
ISBN-13: 978-1844085415
Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 0.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 259 g
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Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #87,678 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Praise for STILL HERE: ** 'It's a testament to Grant's skill that she can create a novel at once so serious and so readable' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ** 'A passionate, meaty book ... Rewarding' MAIL ON SUNDAY ** 'Tough, lusty and resolutely unreconstructed, Alix is an unconventional, strikingly memorable creation' HARPERS & QUEEN

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In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents, surrounded by well-to-do neighbours. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears - but why is this man so violently unwelcome in her parents' home?

The young Vivien escapes to university but a shocking event soon sends her back home and to her uncle Sandy, only recently released from prison. Volunteering to help him write his life story, she learns about the concealed past and the stark choices faced by those intent on survival. As history reveals itself, so too does the simmering London of the 1970s--all punk and skinheads, all race, class and creed, bovver boots and spiked hair--and Viv comes to understand how the clothes we wear define us.

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