All at sea : a memoir / Decca Aitkenhead.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2016]Edition: First United States editionDescription: 225 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780385540650
- 0385540655
- 070.92 23
- PN5123.A43 A3 2016
- BIO026000 | FAM014000 | FAM034000
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Harrison Memorial Library FICTION | Adult Fiction | BIO AITKEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31624003696598 |
"A beautifully written, breathtakingly honest, unsentimental, and profound memoir from one of the UK's most popular journalists. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead's life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water's edge when a wave pulled him out to sea. Her partner, Tony, swam out and saved their son's life--then drowned before her eyes. When Decca and Tony first met, a decade earlier, she was a renowned Guardian journalist, profiling leading politicians of the day; he was a dreadlocked criminal with a history of drug dealing and violence. No one thought the romance would last, but it did--until the tide swept Tony away, plunging Decca into the dark chasm of random tragedy. Exploring race and redemption, privilege and prejudice, All at Sea is a remarkable story of love and loss, of how one couple changed each other's lives, and of what a sudden death can do to the people who survive"-- Provided by publisher.
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