I Wish I Could Say I Was Sorry

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2014
Blackbird Digital Books (Verlag)
978-0-9930922-2-0 (ISBN)

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The travel author recalls a 1950s childhood in post-war London's every shade of grey and the splendours of Africa as, with her glamorous mother and father, Susie boards a ship bound for exotic, technicolor Kenya. There Susie's life disintegrates at break-neck speed into a web of jealousy, rejection and casual cruelty.

Each time it seems things cannot get any worse, they do as Susie lifts the lid on her own, often shocking, behavior in her quest to protect herself and those she loves. Rebellious, lonely and self-destructive, it is a small grey pony named Cinderella who saves Susie from herself and brings her the love she craves. Readers will shed a tear at her losses and laugh at her predicaments in this sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking, true story that gives a moving and often shocking insight in to the earlier life of the bestselling travel writer famed for her humour and her honesty. Key words: autobiography women, biography and autobiography, adventurers and explorers, Africa memoir, childhood memoir, Kenya, 1950s memoir, dysfunctional family, dysfunctional families, Africa, childhood in 1950s, travel Africa, African travel, travel memoir, 1950s London, London memoir, Kenyan travel memoir, Africa memoir, childhood memoir, dysfunctional families, Kenya, Africa, 1950s, adventurers and explorers

Born a Londoner, Susie spent most of the first 25 years of her life in Kenya. In 2014, her memoir I Wish I Could Say I Was Sorry about an abusive childhood growing up in post-war London and Kenya, was a US digital bestseller. She now lives in south-west France with her husband and assorted animals. She believes that her explosive temper is a legacy from her Irish-American grandfather, but has no idea who to blame for her incompetence as a housewife. Susie Kelly is the Patron of the 2015 Charroux International Literary Festival.

Prologue Chapter 1 - Hanworth Chapter 2 - Kenya Castle Chapter 3 - Nairobi Chapter 4 - The Anniversary Clock Chapter 5 - Gertrude's Garden Chapter 6 - Clapham Junction Chapter 7 - The Surrey Hills Chapter 8 - Holidays Chapter 9 - Homesick Chapter 10 - Darned Darning Chapter 11 - Homeward Bound Chapter 12 - Changing Schools Chapter 13 - Home Truth Chapter 14 - The Day Of Eggs Chapter 15 - Machakos Chapter 16 - Cinderella Chapter 17 - Mummy Chapter 18 - A Working Woman Chapter 19 - Moving Out and On Chapter 20 - Mary's Hall Chapter 21 - Riverside Chapter 22 - A Rock and a Hard Place Chapter 23 - La Suocera Chapter 24 - Quella la! Chapter 25 - The Blessing Chapter 26 - Motherhood Chapter 27 - Hertfordshire Chapter 28 - Smoked Salmon and Lambrusco Chapter 29 - Endgame Chapter 30 - Final Curtain Epilogue Photographs Acknowledgements

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2014
Zusatzinfo	black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Afrika ► Kenia / Tansania / Uganda
ISBN-10	0-9930922-2-5 / 0993092225
ISBN-13	978-0-9930922-2-0 / 9780993092220
Zustand	Neuware