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Grace and Mary / Melvyn Bragg.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF BRAG	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781444762341 (hbk.)
	1444762346 (hbk.)
	1444762354 (pbk.)
	9781444762358 (pbk.)
Name	Bragg, Melvyn, 1939-
Title	Grace and Mary / Melvyn Bragg.
Published	London : Sceptre, 2013
Description	249 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary	John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea, and mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her memory, he prompts her with songs, photographs and questions about the 1940s, when she was a young woman and he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But he finds that most of all it is her own mother she longs for - Grace, the mother she barely knew. John sets out to recreate their buried family history, delving into the secrets and silences of Mary's fractured childhood as he imagines the life of her spirited mother. Reaching from the late 19th century to the present, this becomes a deeply moving, reflective elegy on three generations linked by a chain of love, loss, and courage.
Subjects	Families -- Fiction
	Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
	Reminiscing -- Fiction
	Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Genre	Domestic fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Domestic fiction . Families -- Fiction . Mothers and daughters -- Fiction . Mothers and sons -- Fiction . Reminiscing -- Fiction . Authors: Bragg, Melvyn, 1939- .