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When I Had a Little Sister: The Story of a Farming Family Who Never Spoke

English

By (author): Catherine Simpson

If you loved Tara Westovers Educated, get yourself a copy of When I Had a Little Sister as soon as humanly possiblebeautifully under-stateda startling, elegiac portrait of farming life in modern Britain. Vogue

Gripping and heart-wrenching Mail on Sunday

On a cold December day in 2013 Catherine Simpson received the phone call she had feared for years. Her little sister Tricia had been found dead in the farmhouse where she, Catherine and their sister Elizabeth were born and where their family had lived for generations.

Tricia was 46 and had been stalked by depression all her life. Yet mental illness was a taboo subject within the family and although love was never lacking, there was a silence at its heart.

After Tricia died, Catherine found she had kept a lifetime of diaries. The words in them took her back to a past they had shared, but experienced so differently, and offered a thread to help explore the labyrinth of her sisters suicide.

When I had a Little Sister tells a story of sisters and sacrifice, grief and reclamation, and of the need to speak the unspeakable.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 280g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Mar 2020
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008301675

About Catherine Simpson

Catherine Simpsons debut novel Truestory (Sandstone Press 2015) won her a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. It was inspired by her experiences raising her autistic daughter Nina. She and Nina now campaign for Autism Acceptance. In 2016 Catherine received a Hawthornden Fellowship. Born and brought up on a Lancashire farm Catherine lives in Edinburgh.

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