De Waal’s ‘extraordinary’ memoir goes to Tinder PressPosted in Articles, Autobiography, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2021-10-01 18:52Z by Steven |
De Waal’s ‘extraordinary’ memoir goes to Tinder Press
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2021-09-28
Heloise Wood, Deputy News Editor
Tinder Press has landed Kit de Waal’s memoir about growing up in Birmingham in the Sixties and Seventies, Without Warning and Only Sometimes, which she described as “the story I always wanted to tell”.
Publisher Mary-Anne Harrington acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Jo Unwin at JULA. Without Warning and Only Sometimes will be published on 18th August 2022.
The memoir charts de Waal’s unpredictable childhood, growing up mixed race in Moseley, Birmingham.
Harrington said: “I have been desperate to work with Kit for years and knew she had the most wonderful story to tell, so it’s both an enormous thrill and an honour to be working with her on Without Warning and Only Sometimes. Kit takes us into the mind and heart of a girl raised to believe the world was going to end in 1975, who was never allowed to celebrate Christmas, and whose father squirreled away every penny he had to build a house in St Kitts that his wife and children were never to see.”…
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