Ferdinand Mount
Autor(a) de Jem (and Sam)
About the Author
Ferdinand Mount is the author of such novels as Jem (and Sam), a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, and Fairness, a nominee for the Booker Prize. Both The Man Who Rode Ampersand and Fairness are novels in the acclaimed series A Chronicle of Modern Twilight. Mount edited the Times mostrar mais Literary Supplement for many years and is now a columnist for the Sunday Times in London mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Ferdinand Mount
Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson (2023) 11 exemplares
'Periwigs & posterity' in TLS , 23 May 2003 1 exemplar
Clubbing Together 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Mount, Sir William Robert Ferdinand, 3rd Baronet
- Data de nascimento
- 1939-07-02
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Locais de residência
- Islington, London, England, UK
- Educação
- Greenways School
Ashton Gifford House, Wiltshire, England, UK
Sunningdale School, Berkshire, England, UK
Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England, UK
Oxford University (Christ Church College) - Ocupações
- writer
columnist
politician - Relações
- Harry Mount (son)
- Organizações
- The Sunday Times
The Times Literary Supplement
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 29
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 774
- Popularidade
- #32,871
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Críticas
- 7
- ISBN
- 81
- Línguas
- 4
The second thing was the mention of Sheffield and there is a fabulous lengthy chapter in the book about my home city in the late 19th and early 20th century. I'm sure any reader would agree that there is something extra special about reading about a place you know well.
And then there's that gorgeous cover with the image of a glamorous looking man and woman lightly holding hands. I was desperate to know their story.
Kiss Myself Goodbye is Ferdinand Mount's account of his aunt's life. A shadowy character, edging around questions she doesn't want to provide true answers to, he manages to discover endless amazing things about her life both up until the point she is a part of his life and beyond. And it truly is fascinating. The whole thing had my jaw dropping on many occasions, and sometimes nodding along sagely as previously unknown or seemingly unconnected pieces of information all slotted into place.
I particularly enjoyed Mount's journey of discovery through genealogy research, the way he found out so much from birth, marriage and death certificates. He has a difficult job as Munca didn't seem to tell the truth about herself so every single detail is hard won.
Kiss Myself Goodbye is the name of a song the author remembers from a trip to a nightclub with his Aunt Munca but it's also remarkably fitting as Munca spent her lifetime kissing her real self goodbye and reinventing herself. They often say the truth is stranger than fiction and that's definitely true of Munca's life.
I found this to be an engrossing story of a woman with more layers than an onion and a social history read packed with informational gems. Whilst there was the odd section that didn't completely absorb me, the vast majority of it was utterly captivating. It's a fabulous book.… (mais)