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My Disappearing Uncle

Kathy Henderson
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detective history
england
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european history
family history
france
hungary
italy
last waltz in vienna
london
memoir
narrative history
oral history
paris
south america
the hare with the amber eyes
the war after
the world of yesterday
women's history

Product details

  • ISBN 9781803991221
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Mar 2023
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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‘A fascinating book about a remarkable family.’ - Edmund de Waal

Memoir, detective work and political history come together in this vivid and moving family biography told through the stories passed down by its undaunted women.

Heard on a toboggan in the Austrian mountains, in the back seat of an overloaded Mini toiling through Europe, on a coal barge in Paris … here are tales that take us from Hungary, Germany and Italy to France, England and Argentina, and from the young actress in fi n de siècle Vienna to the 16-year-old schoolboy who disappeared for over fifty years. My Disappearing Uncle is a journey of discovery that explores the complicated dance between the present and the past.

‘Henderson’s narrative … includes a wide range of memorable personalities as we move into and then beyond the Vienna of Freud, Mahler and Klimt … Centuries of turbulent, superbly narrated history.’ - Jewish Chronicle
About Kathy Henderson
KATHY HENDERSON is an award-winning children’s writer, poet and illustrator with more than 30 published books, winner among other things of the Kurt Maschler Award, the Aesop Prize of the American Folklore Society and shortlisted for the Children’s Poetry Prize. With a background in literature, music and oral history she also compiled My Song is My Own, 100 Women’s Songs from the British Isles which has become the iconic book on the hidden voices of women. She has written for radio, visited hundreds of schools and libraries and been a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.

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