Morrison's follow-up to "When Did You Last See Your Father?". A poignant study of family conflict, love, war and marriage. Offers an insight into life during W.W.II. "Morrison's prose has the diamond cut of a poet's eye, and his story is suffused with warmth and longing...he has brought his mother vividly to life in an outstanding work of family literature" "Independent".

Morrison's follow-up to "When Did You Last See Your Father?". A poignant study of family conflict, love, war and marriage. Offers an insight into life during W.W.II. "Morrison's prose has the diamond cut of a poet's eye, and his story is suffused with warmth and longing...he has brought his mother vividly to life in an outstanding work of family literature" "Independent".

Blake Morrison is the author of a memoir, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, one novel The Justification of Johann Gutenberg, two collections of poems, a children's book, and a study of the Bulger case, As If. He lives in London.

'The must-read book of the year, Blake Morrison writes about his mother with the mind of a poet, the eye of a detective and the heart of a loving son' Tony Parsons