Lyndall Gordon: Divided Lives [2014] paperback Condition:New 'Brilliantly executed

'Brilliantly executed

Bombs are exploding

radio and stage

and their children have long since fled for the catastrophes of their own lives

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2021

Lyndall Gordon: Divided Lives [2014] paperback Condition:New 'Brilliantly executed'As a child, I'm to be my mother's "sister" because she wants one so. My part is to be there if she's ill. At four years old, it's a privilege to have this responsibility instead of trotting off to nursery school like other children.' So begins the renowned and award wining biographer's book about her own life particularly in relationship to her mother an extraordinary and intensely realised tale of loyalty and division; breakdown and recovery;