In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood
Author: Sir Andrew Motion
Format: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 269g, 336 pages
Published: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2007
Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of expression and freshness of memory. We encounter a strange but beguiling extended family, a profound love of the natural world, a troubled schooling, and a growing passion for books and writing.
By turns funny, heartbreaking and elegiac, In the Blood is a deeply moving portrait of the bond between a mother and her son, and the capturing of a moment in time before the loss of childhood innocence.
Andrew Motion was born in 1952 and read English at University College, Oxford. Following a glittering and award winning literary career, he was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999. He is the author of nine books of poems, and won considerable acclaim for his biographies of Keats and Larkin.
Author: Sir Andrew Motion
Format: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 269g, 336 pages
Published: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2007
Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of expression and freshness of memory. We encounter a strange but beguiling extended family, a profound love of the natural world, a troubled schooling, and a growing passion for books and writing.
By turns funny, heartbreaking and elegiac, In the Blood is a deeply moving portrait of the bond between a mother and her son, and the capturing of a moment in time before the loss of childhood innocence.
Andrew Motion was born in 1952 and read English at University College, Oxford. Following a glittering and award winning literary career, he was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999. He is the author of nine books of poems, and won considerable acclaim for his biographies of Keats and Larkin.