{"id":62606,"date":"2022-08-25T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62606"},"modified":"2022-08-25T00:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T00:59:42","slug":"without-warning-and-only-sometimes-scenes-from-an-unpredictable-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62606","title":{"rendered":"Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Tinder Press<\/a> (an imprint of Headline Publishing Group<\/a>)
\n2022-08-18
\n304 pages
\n222 x 138 mm
\nHardback ISBN: 9781472284839<\/p>\n

Kit de Waal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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From the award-winning author of My Name is Leon<\/em><\/a>, The Trick to Time<\/em> and Supporting Cast<\/em> comes a childhood memoir set to become a classic: stinging, warm-hearted, and true.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder<\/a> sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his relatives in the Caribbean<\/a>, cooked elaborate meals on a whim and splurged money they didn’t have on cars, suits and shoes fit for a prince. Both of her parents were waiting for paradise. It never came.<\/p>\n

Caught between three worlds, Irish, Caribbean and British in 1960s Birmingham<\/a>, Kit and her brothers and sisters knew all the words to the best songs, caught sticklebacks<\/a> in jam jars and braved hunger and hellfire until they could all escape.<\/p>\n

Without Warning and Only Sometimes<\/em> is a story of an extraordinary childhood and how a girl who grew up in house where the Bible was the only book on offer went on to discover a love of reading that inspires her to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood Tinder Press (an imprint of Headline Publishing Group) 2022-08-18 304 pages 222 x 138 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781472284839 Kit de Waal From the award-winning author of My Name is Leon, The Trick to Time and Supporting Cast comes a childhood memoir set to become a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,10],"tags":[15923,81,32641,24639,32036],"class_list":["post-62606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-uk","tag-birmingham","tag-england","tag-headline-publishing-group","tag-kit-de-waal","tag-tinder-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63981,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62606\/revisions\/63981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}