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Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother.
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Clinging to the Wreckage, John Mortimer
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- 1983
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- Title
- Clinging to the Wreckage
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Mortimer
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1983
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140063838
- ISBN13
- 9780140063837
- Series
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother.




