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CLOSE TO HOME (Arrow £5.99)
My second novel was also drawn largely from my own life.
I was living in Camden Town, London, with two small children.
Such is the intense, closed-off world of motherhood, I simply
could imagine no other life. Of course I created fictional
characters and events, but they were deeply rooted in my own
circumstances – marriage to a man who was often away,
a long secret garden, and that parched, magical summer of
1976.
At 23 Brinsley Street, Kate Cooper struggles with her two
babies, the household chores and the effort of keeping up
appearances for her high-flying husband. Next door, Sam Green
struggles with his novel, his wife goes out to work and his
self-absorbed daughter strives to keep up the appearance of
a teenager. As the long, hot summer draws on, a heady brew
of magic and mischief awaits them all.
“Hilarious.”
(The Observer)
“Funny, affectionate and unpretentious…always
a pleasure to read. Moggach has acute things to say about
young married life, about looking after children, about the
secret places behind noisy North London streets.”
(New Statesman)
“An immaculately observered slice of urban life.”
(Daily Telegraph)
256 pages (June 1993)
Publisher: Arrow; ISBN: 0749312297
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