Lyndall Gordon: Divided Lives [2014] paperback Condition:New WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2021

At once timeless and yet exquisitely of its moment

at midnight on 14 August 1947

Respected and trusted by his men

radio and stage

Lyndall Gordon: Divided Lives [2014] paperback Condition:New WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST'As a child, I'm to be my mother's "sister" because she wants one so. My part is to be there if she's ill. At four years old, it's a privilege to have this responsibility instead of trotting off to nursery school like other children.' So begins the renowned and award wining biographer's book about her own life particularly in relationship to her mother an extraordinary and intensely realised tale of loyalty and division; breakdown and recovery;