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Antigona and Me
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An absolutely wonderful book - Deborah Moggach In a London street at the turn of the twenty-first century, two neighbours start to chat over the heads of their children. Kate Clanchy is a writer, privileged and sheltered. Antigona is a refugee from Kosovo. On instinct, Kate...
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An absolutely wonderful book - Deborah Moggach
In a London street at the turn of the twenty-first century, two neighbours start to chat over the heads of their children.
Kate Clanchy is a writer, privileged and sheltered. Antigona is a refugee from Kosovo. On instinct, Kate offers Antigona a job as a nanny, and Antigona accepts. Over the next five years and a thousand cups of coffee, Antigona's extraordinary story slowly emerges. She has escaped from a war, she has divorced a violent husband, but can she escape the harsh code she was brought up with?
At the kitchen table where anything can be said, the women discover they have everything, as well as nothing, in common.
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ISBN: 9781800751866
Publisher: Swift Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 January 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Swift Press
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 288
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Kate Clanchy is a writer, teacher and journalist. She has won a Forward Prize, the BBC National Short Story Award, the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and her novel Meeting the English was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award. In 2018 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature.
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