Will this house last forever?
Barker, Xanthi2021
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When Xanthi Barker's father died when she was in her mid twenties, she could make no sense of her grief for a man who had been absent for most of her life. Her father, Sebastian Barker, had left Xanthi, her mother and her brother to pursue poetry and a new relationship, when Xanthi was a baby. Growing up she had always struggled to reconcile his extravagant affection - the house he built for the family in Greece, rocking horses crafted by hand, an endless stream of poems and drawings and letters - with the fact that he could not be relied upon to show up at parents' evening or to answer the phone sober after 6pm. Though theirs was a relationship defined by departures, he always returned, so why should this farewell be any different, or more final? This is a heartfelt and wholly original memoir about the pain of having to come to terms with a parent's mortality.
Main title:
Will this house last forever? / Xanthi Barker.
Author:
Barker, Xanthi, author
Imprint:
London : Tinder Press, 2021.
Collation:
368 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781472274441 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1146038
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