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Sift
Memories of Childhood
Lawrence Sail
Price: £12.99 (HB)
ISBN: 978-1-907605-00-0
Publication: 1 Sept 2010
Sift is the memoir of writer and poet Lawrence Sail’s formative years in post-war Exeter. Sail paints a wonderfully evocative picture of British life in the 1940s and 50s, while exploring the richness and bafflements of a child’s life.
“Most families know the true history of time and chance – the sift of who and what survives, what is spoken of or glossed over; the stubborn objects outliving their owner’s passion for them; the oddities of fashion; the co-editing of memory, forgetfulness and the need to forget...”
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“A most compelling read – the intensity of detail, the moments of drama, the sense of the post-war period – and, above all, it is marvellously written.”
Penelope Lively
“Sift is a brilliantly atmospheric recreation of a post-war childhood. Lawrence Sail explores the absence of his German artist father, his mother’s determination to bring up her twin’s singlehanded, and his own heritage in a memoir which is beautifully written, candid, funny and moving.”
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