Island Summers - Tilly Culme-Seymour

Island Summers

Memories of a Norwegian Childhood
Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2013
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-4088-1213-6 (ISBN)
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‘My grandmother bought the island. The year was 1947 and she was thirty-three, a couple of years older than I am now. She was the visionary sort of person who can make something magical out of very little.’

From the moment that Tilly’s grandmother, Mor-mor, set eyes on the rocky outline of Småhølmene, it captured her imagination. Legend has it that she bought the island in exchange for a mink coat.

Every summer from then on, she and her young family would escape from their life in the English countryside to its rugged outcrops and sparkling waters. Mor-mor loved Småhølmene fiercely. Lean and chic, she smoked voraciously and would scandalise the local islanders by roaming around naked, flanked by her standard black poodle, Cheri. Her children spent their days running wild, thieving for gull eggs, rowing on the lagoon, and foraging for island raspberries, which Mor-mor would sandwich together with whipped cream to make into a sukkerkake.

Thirty-five years later, Tilly spent her first summer on Småhølmene. Her Mamma kept up the rituals that she herself had learnt from Mor-mor, and Tilly discovered in the island a living link between her family’s past and its present. Glittering and bittersweet, this is the captivating story of the women who made Småhølmene their own: a land of childhood adventures, of magical summers, and of Tilly’s first romance.

Tilly Culme-Seymour studied English at Trinity College, Dublin. She is now based in London, where she writes on food and travel. This is her first book.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.7.2013
Zusatzinfo Colour
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 216 mm
Gewicht 465 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Essen / Trinken
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Bildbände Europa Norwegen
ISBN-10 1-4088-1213-4 / 1408812134
ISBN-13 978-1-4088-1213-6 / 9781408812136
Zustand Neuware
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