- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (6 April 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571212891
- ISBN-13: 978-0571212897
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 740,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Andrew O'Hagan
'The most brilliant British memoir published in years.'
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This is a hugely moving and affecting literary memoir of adoption, a family mystery, and the need to belong. When Jeremy Harding was a child, his mother Maureen told him he was adopted. She described his natural parents as a Scandinavian sailor and a 'little Irish girl' who worked at Woolworth's. It was only later, as Harding set out to look for traces of his birth mother, that he began to understand who his adoptive mother really was - and the benign make-believe world she'd built for herself and her little boy. "Mother Country" evokes a magical childhood spent in transit between Notting Hill Gate and a decrepit houseboat on the banks of the Thames. It is a detective quest, as Harding searches through the public record for a clue about his natural mother, and a rich social history of a lost London from the 1950s. "Mother Country" is a powerful true story, full of thrilling revelations, comic confusion, and tender memories, about a man looking for the mother he'd never known, and finding out how little he'd understood about the one he'd grown up with.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A wonderful book,
By nottingdale "colville" (london) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mother Country (Hardcover)
Harding's determined quest into his own past is a perfectly measured portrait of class and its constraints. It combines the narrative drive of a great detective novel with the subtlety and descriptiveness of great literature. A tender (but never sentimental) portrait of two mothers.
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