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In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home? This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live. Set against the backdrop of a London from the 1950s to the present day, The Clothes on Their Backs is a wise and tender novel about the clothes we choose to wear, the personalities we dress ourselves in, and about how they define us all.
| ISBN | 1844085422 | | Pages | 304 | | ISBN13 | 9781844085422
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 244 | | Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Virago Press Ltd | | Previous ISBN | 9781844085415 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 02 Apr 2009 | | Width (mm) | 127 | | DEWEY | 823.92 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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** 'If you read only one novel this year, make sure it is The Clothes on Their Backs SUNDAY EXPRESS ** 'A beautifully written and truly moving book about the experience of growing up in Britain as a second generation immigrant EXPRESS ** 'It's a sublimely atmospheric and moving novel LONDON PAPER ** 'This is a vivid, enjoyable and consistently unexpected novel THE DAILY TELEGRAPH  Be the first to write a customer review
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