She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-03-18 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: Faber and Faber Crime When Emma Brockes was ten years old. her mother said One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed. Growing up in a tranquil English village. Emma knew very little of her mothers life before her. She knew Paula had grown up in South Africa and had seven siblings. She had been told stories about deadly snakes and hailstones the size of golf balls. There was mention. once. of a trial But most of the past was a mystery When her mother dies of cancer. Emma -.. by then a successful journalist at the Guardian -. is free to investigate the untold story Her search begins in the Colindale library but then takes her to South Africa. to the extended family she has never met and their accounts of a childhood so different to her own She encounters versions of the life her m...