She Left Me the Gun
My Mother's Life Before Me
Detroit, Michigan : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2013.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 441 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
A chilling work of psychological suspense and forensic memoir, this is a tale of a woman who reinvented herself so completely that her previous life seemed to vanish, and of a daughter who reclaims an abandoned past. Emma Brockes grew up hearing only pieces of her mother's story. After her death, Emma begins a dangerous journey into the land her mother fled from to unearth the truth.
Series: Thorndike Press large print biography series.
Contents:
If You Think That's Aggressive Then You Really Haven't Lived -- South Africa, 1932-1960 -- Chasing The Train -- London, Buckinghamshire, London -- Departure -- At the Archive -- A Very Interesting Group Of People -- Friends are Like Jewels -- Gold Jewelry -- Everything That Matters -- Hearsay -- Eloff Street On a Saturday Morning -- Tony -- Babanango -- Who Wears Hats To The Dentist? -- Freedom Day -- Afterward -- Epilogue.
Subjects:
Brockes, Pauline Dulcie -- Childhood and youth.
Brockes, Emma -- Family.
Brockes, Emma -- Travel -- South Africa.
Mothers and daughters -- Biography.
Child sexual abuse -- South Africa -- Case studies.
Abusive men -- South Africa -- Case studies.
Fathers -- Violence against -- South Africa -- Case studies.
Large type books.
South Africa -- Biography.
South Africa -- Description and travel.
Brockes, Pauline Dulcie -- Childhood and youth.
Brockes, Emma -- Family.
Brockes, Emma -- Travel -- South Africa.
Mothers and daughters -- Biography.
Child sexual abuse -- South Africa -- Case studies.
Abusive men -- South Africa -- Case studies.
Fathers -- Violence against -- South Africa -- Case studies.
Large type books.
South Africa -- Biography.
South Africa -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9781410462909
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LP BIOGRAPHY Brockes Family | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Biography | In |
Originally published: New York : The Penguin Press, 2013.