Just One More Day (Singing the Walls)

✍ Scribed by Lewis, Susan

• Book ID: 109131702
• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 201 KB
• Series: Memoir 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0434013927

✦ Synopsis

In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by tragedy

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While Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her mother, Eddress, is struggling for courage. Though bound by an indestructible love, their journey through a world that is darkening with tragedy is fraught with the kind of misunderstandings that bring as much laughter as pain, and as many dreams as nightmares. How does a child cope when faced with a wall of adult secrets? What does a mother do when her biggest fear starts to become a reality? Because it's the Sixties, and because it's shameful to own up to feelings, Eddress tries to deny the truth, while Susan creates a world that will never allow her mother to leave.

Set in a world where a fridge is a luxury, cars have starting handles, and where bingo and coupons bring in the little extras, Just One More Day is a deeply moving true-life account, told by mother and daughter, of how the spectre of death...