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The Three of Us: A Family Story
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Winner of the J. R. Ackerley AwardThis is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to barbiturates; Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious. After her parents were divorced, Julia’s mother took in lodgers, always men, on the understanding that each should become her lover. When one of the lodgers started an affair with Julia, Rosalie was devastated; when he later committed suicide the relationship between mother and daughter was shattered irrevocably.Or so it seemed until the spring of 1999, when Rosalie, diagnosed with leukaemia, came to live with Julia for the last month of her life.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.29 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 336 |
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| Year Published | 2009-5-7 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099507048 |
| About The Author | Julia Blackburn has written five books of non-fiction – Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert, Old Man Goya and With Billie – a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the author of seventeen short stories specially commisioned by BBC Radio, a selection of which were published in My Animals and Other Family, and four radio plays, including The Spellbound Horses, which was broadcast in 2011. |
A small masterpiece, much to be recommended |
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| Other text | Blackburn has written an exceptionally perceptive and fascinating book, a tribute by a remarkable daughter to the resilience of filial love |
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