Connective Tissue

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

South-West Scotland, 2010. Air-traffic controller Helena's baby is born with unexplained paralysis. Faced with an unforgiving medical establishment, she turns to the Jewish grandmother she never knew, unfolding the past in search of answers.Berlin, 1937. Single mother and kitchen hand Dora struggles in a city growing increasingly hostile, with questions being asked of bloodlines and identity. Will she always be alone? And how long will she and her daughter be able to call this home?Based on extensive research into Eleanor Thom's lost family history, Connective Tissue is a story of migration, motherhood, and our need to know the people and places that make us.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-06
Mått:129 x 198 x 32 mm
Vikt:444 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Taproot Press
ISBN:9781739207700

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Eleanor Thom lives in Edinburgh. Recurring themes in her work are place, social history, memory and family life. Her first novel, The Tin-Kin, won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and was featured on BBC TV's The Culture Show. For the past five years, she has been the Community Writer in Residence for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Eleanor's research on her grandmother was presented to the Bundestag in 2022 during proceedings to change Germany's citizenship laws. As a result, along with her mother and her children, Eleanor was granted dual German citizenship on grounds of restitution.