Why be happy when you could be normal?

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Why be happy when you could be normal?

Large print ed.
  • 4.25 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 51 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 9 Have read

This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. It is the story of how the past Jeanette thought she had written over and repainted returned to haunt her later life, and sent her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother.

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Publisher
Windsor
Language
English
Pages
223

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Table of Contents

1. Wrong crib
2. My advice to anybody is: Get born
3. In the beginning was the word
4. Trouble with a book ...
5. At home
6. Church
7. Accrington
8. Apocalpyse
9. English literature A-Z
10. This is the road
11. Art and lies
Intermission
12. Night sea voyage
13. This appointment takes place in the past
14. Strange meeting
Wound
Coda.

Edition Notes

Standard print ed. originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2011.

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Bath

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.92

The Physical Object

Pagination
223 pages (large print)
Number of pages
223

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32154338M
Internet Archive
whybehappywhenyo0000wint
ISBN 10
1445884038, 1445884046
ISBN 13
9781445884035, 9781445884042
OCLC/WorldCat
772972083

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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