This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing

This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing
Jacqueline Winspear
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28 Sep 2021 US
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9781641292948
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After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather' s shellshock, her mother' s evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father' s torturous assignment to an explosives team during WWII; her parents' years living with Romani Gypsies; and Jacqueline' s own childhood working on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception. An eye-opening and heartfelt portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, This Time Next Year We' ll Be Laughing is the story of a childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory.
An IndieNext Selection for November 2020 A LibraryReads Selection for November 2020Praise for This Time Next Year We' ll Be Laughing "The author of the Maisie Dobbs series of cozy British mysteries picked hops as a young girl to help support her family, which struggled to subsist in the hardscrabble landscape of rural Kent. This childhood memoir, though frank in its details of postwar privation, is at heart a love story--her parents' love for each other, and hers for them and the meaningful life they gave her. " --The Wall Street Journal "I fell in love with Jackie Winspear almost at once, right there on Page 24 of her engaging, amusing and moving memoir of growing up in the post-World War II English countryside . . . You don' t have to be a boomer or have had a mirror experience to get pulled into the world Winspear re-creates. It' s a world both nostalgic and soberly realistic, full of crystalline descriptions of the Kentish countryside and the now long-gone hop gardens that once flourished there. " --The Washington Post "The book is heartfelt and humorous, poignant and frank, and -- as with the Maisie Dobbs books -- beautifully written. " --Buzzfeed "A lovely memoir whether you are a fan of Winspear' s Maisie Dobbs mysteries or not. This is her personal account of her English childhood, including the harrowing stories and trauma of the second world war on her grandparents and parents, and her young life living on farms around Kent. " --BookRiot "Evocative . . . Walking with her through this complex thicket of rumination and reminiscence offers readers a chance to understand more about the writing process, while revealing details of a family heritage well worth recording. " --Bookreporter. com "Has there been another title this fitting to the moment released this year? I doubt it . . . An extraordinary story of a childhood that spanned huge changes in society and a family grappling with the world lurching ahead. It was the perfect read for this year. " --The Secret Library Podcast "Jacqueline Winspear has created a memoir of her English childhood that is every bit as engaging as her Maisie Dobbs novels, just as rich in character and detail, history and humanity. Her writing is lovely, elegant and welcoming. " --Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author of Almost Everything: Notes on Hope "Jacqueline Winspear' s memoir takes the reader through the early and adolescent years of the author' s life as well as the history of her parents' young marriage in a fashion that is simultaneously endearing, touching, amusing, heartfelt, and astonishing . . . It' s a love letter and a beautiful work of gratitude toward the people and the place that made the author what and who she is. " --Elizabeth George, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley novels"A beautifully rendered, elegant work of literary architecture joining the present to the past. Jacqueline Winspear' s memoir of an English country childhood is also an homage to the remarkable parents whose choices and outlooks shaped her. Their stories of hardship and gratitude became hers, and hers became this unforgettable book. " --Hope Edelman, New York Times bestselling author of Motherless Daughters and The Aftergrief"This is a memoir both evocative and unflinching. Without a trace of self-pity, Jacqueline Winspear portrays a childhood of rural poverty overcome by hard manual labor, lifelong love amid emotional wounds, and a profound understanding of how ' the gift of place' creates meaning . . . An illuminating portrait of a time and place that is as optimistic as it is deeply moving. " --Sally Bedell Smith, author of Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life"[Winspear' s] words are hopeful and bright, and imbued with a resilience that will resonate with readers . . . The book will appeal well beyond Winspear' s fan base as a literary memoir deeply linked to history and as a meditation on place and family. " --Library Journal, Starred Review"[Winspear] draws distinctive portraits of postwar England, altogether different from the U. S. , where she has since settled, and her unsettling struggles within the rigid British class system. An engaging childhood memoir and a deeply affectionate tribute to the author' s parents. " --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "Though she was born in 1955, [Winspear] provides a visceral portrait of London during WWII and the hardships and cultural changes that shaped England in the decades that followed . . . [An] elegantly executed memoir. " --Publishers Weekly Praise for Maisie DobbsA New York Times Notable Book of the Year Agatha Award Winner for Best First Novel Macavity Award Winner for Best First Novel Alex Award Winner"Compelling . . . powerful. [Maisie Dobbs] testifies to the enduring allure of the traditional mystery . . . even though I knew what was coming this second time ' round, its final scene is still a punch in the gut. " --Maureen Corrigan for NPR' s Fresh Air [A] deft debut novel . . . Romantic readers sensing a story-within-a-story won' t be disappointed. But first they must be prepared to be astonished at the sensitivity and wisdom with which Maisie resolves her first professional assignment. --The New York TimesThe reader familiar with Alexander McCall Smith' s The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency . . . might think of Maisie Dobbs as its British counterpart . . . [Winspear] has created a winning character about whom readers will want to read more. --Associated Press[Maisie Dobbs] catches the sorrow of a lost generation in the character of one exceptional woman. --Chicago Tribune One of the best and most influential crime novels of the young century. --Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine"A fine new sleuth for the twenty-first century. Simultaneously self-reliant and vulnerable, Maisie isn' t a character I' ll easily forget. " --Elizabeth George, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley series "The book is much more than a cosy mystery--it is also about women' s growing emancipation and the profound changes to society after the First World War. " --Mail on Sunday "A delightful mix of mystery, war story and romance set in WWI-era England . . . A refreshing heroine, appealing secondary characters and an absorbing plot [make Winspear a] writer to watch. " --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "A poignant and compelling story . . . [Winspear handles] human drama with compassionate sensitivity while skillfully avoiding cloying sentimentality. At the end, the reader is left yearning for more. Highly recommended. " --Library Journal, Starred Review
Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in the county of Kent, England, and now lives in California. After graduating from the University of London' s Institute of Education, she worked in academic publishing, in higher education and in marketing communications in the UK. She emigrated to the United States in 1990, and while working in business she began to write articles about international education and travel for The Washington Post, Huffington Post, and other publications. In 2003 she turned to fiction with her New York Times bestselling Maisie Dobbs series, which has been translated into over twenty languages; was a New York Times Notable Book; won an Agatha, a Macavity, and an Alex Award; and was nominated for four other awards. In addition to fifteen Maisie Dobbs novels, Winspear has published one standalone novel about the Great War, The Care and Management of Lies, which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781641292948
Published: 28 Sep 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Soho Press
Publisher: Soho Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 139mm
Pages: 312

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