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Why be happy when you could be normal?

[1st American ed.].
  • 4.25 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 50 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 9 Have read

This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges."

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Table of Contents

The wrong crib
My advice to anybody is : get born
In the beginning was the word
The trouble with a book...
At home
Church
Accrington
The apocalypse
English literature A-Z
This is the road
Art and lies
Intermission
The night sea voyage
This appointment takes place in the past
Strange meeting
The wound
Coda.

Edition Notes

Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2011.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6073.I558 Z46 2011, PR6073.I558 A3 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
230 p.
Number of pages
230

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27131480M
Internet Archive
whybehappywhenyo0000wint_j8x3
ISBN 10
0802120105
ISBN 13
9780802120106
OCLC/WorldCat
771942079

Work Description

Memories of the author about her difficult childhood as the adopted daughter of an English mother with strong religious convictions, and her subsequent search for her biological mother.

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