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Harper
June 2015
On Sale: June 5, 2015
345 pages
ISBN: 0007514646
EAN: 9780007514649
Kindle: B00FAI69NO
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A witty memoir about the trials of adolescence, the
tribulations of family life and the embarrassment that
ensues from having larger-than-life parents Neville
and Liz Hodgkinson bought into the Thatcherite dream of home
ownership, aspiration and advancement. The first children of
their working class parents to go to university and have
professional careers, they lived in a semi-detached house in
Richmond, sent their sons Tom and Will to private school,
and went on holiday to Greece once a year. Neville was an
award-winning science writer and Liz was a high-earning
tabloid hack. Then a disastrous boat holiday, followed
by a life-threatening bout of food poisoning from a
contaminated turkey, led to the search for a new way of
life. Nev joined the Brahma Kumaris, who believe
evolution is a myth, time is circular, and a forthcoming
Armageddon will make way for a new Golden Age. Out went
drunken
dinner parties and Victorian décor schemes; in
came large women in saris meditating in the living room and
lurid paintings of smiling deities on the walls. Liz took
the arrival of the Brahma Kumaris as a chance to wage
all-out war on convention, from announcing her newfound
celibacy on prime time television to writing books that
questioned the value of getting married and raising
children. By an unfortunate coincidence, this dramatic
and highly public transformation of the self coincided with
the onset of Will’s adolescence. This is his story.
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