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Meg begins to make sense of her history when she reads an account of her Russian grandfather's childhood. Fourteen year old Alexis's life is devastated when gunmen execute his parents and siblings on their estate in Tashkent, from which he flees by train in 1904. She is entranced by his story, which includes a friendship with Benjamin Britten and a tale attached to Constable s painting, Chain Pier, Brighton. When Meg begins to write later in her life, her warm, spirited voice tells a story which will resonate with anyone who has felt strangely alone within their own family. Spanning the 20th century The Sound of Turquoise challenges our perceptions of love and loss. This is a remarkable work of life writing that leads us to explore our ancestry in order to understand the ways in which the past continues to haunt and shape our lives in the present.
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This subtle, beautifully written narrative is irresistible. Built from stories within stories, memories within memories, it tells of a girl growing up in the sixties haunted by the three men in her family her brother who has severe epilepsy, her mysterious psychiatrist father and her exotic Russian grandfather. The tenderness and the bleakness, the jokes and the tragic tensions evoked in Gill Gregory's book are unforgettable. She is a fine writer with a gripping story to tell. --Isobel Armstrong
A gentle, lyrical life history in which Gregory creates a space for her alter ego, 'Meg', to relive her experiences: some exhilarating, some too painful perhaps to recall directly. From ballet in Bloomsbury to Croydon's Orchid Ballroom, packed with eager teenagers waiting to see The Supremes, Gregory's narrative offers vivid sketches of venues and a strong sense of the bodily presence of those who frequented them. Preoccupied with the epilepsy of her brother, we watch Meg as she haunts the periphery [...] The Sound of Turquoise also recounts Meg's Russian grandfather's fairy-tale escape from 'exotic' Uzbekistan in 1904 but it is the details of the adoptive world he rallied round him in England that will perhaps most captivate the reader - the collection of Constable's landscapes paintings and his impassioned discussions with Benjamin Britten over their display at Aldeburgh. --The Times Literary Supplement
'A powerful and haunting tale of migration which maps and explores the ways in which trauma continues to resonate through the generations. As a child of migrants from Poland and Croatia, The Sound of Turquoise resonated for me on many levels. The Sound of Turquoise is a beautiful and very dramatic story of the past told from the vantage point of the present. Here is a compelling tale of our times.' --Greg Kucich
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Gill Gregory taught in adult education before being awarded a PhD in English at Birkbeck College, University of London. For the past ten years she has worked as a lecturer at The University of Notre Dame. She has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement and other publications include a monograph on Adelaide Procter, Poetry, Feminism & Fathers (Ashgate). Her first collection of poetry, In Slow Woods, is published by Rufus Books.
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- EditoreKingston University Press
- Data di pubblicazione2009
- ISBN 10 1899999469
- ISBN 13 9781899999460
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- LinguaInglese
- Numero edizione1
- Numero di pagine168
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