Kate Clanchy; Frank Cottrell Boyce; Stella Duffy; Ra Page; Maggie Gee; Sarah Hall; Tania Hershman; Zoe Lambert; MacLeod Carcanet Press (2012) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Pan Macmillan Sivumäärä: 288 sivua Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja Julkaisuvuosi: 2009, 18.09.2009 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
'Antigona,' I said. 'How would you feel if I wrote your life down in a book?'
'Good,' she said at once. 'Good. And then a feature film, actually. Mini-series.'
One morning in London, two neighbours start to chat over the heads of their children. Kate Clanchy is a writer, privileged and sheltered, Antigona is a refugee from Kosovo. On instinct, Kate offers Antigona a job as a nanny, and Antigona, equally shrewdly, accepts. Over the next five years and a thousand cups of coffee Antigona's extraordinary story slowly emerges. She has escaped from a war, she has divorced a violent husband, but can she escape the harsh code she was brought up with, the Kanun of Lek? At the kitchen table where anything can be said, the women discover they have everything, as well as nothing, in common.
'Clanchy's portrait of Antigona is wonderfully vivid, as are her reflections on her own complex feelings. A powerfully written, refreshingly honest work.' Observer
