Scenes from early life

Hensher, P (2012) Scenes from early life. Fourth Estate, London. ISBN 9780007433704

Abstract

At that time, there were children you weren't supposed to play with. You knew why. Their parents had been informers during the war. And it hadn't been long since you could have got into trouble for singing a song. My grandfather hid all his Bengali poetry in the cellar. I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn't be heard to cry. You see, there were soldiers in the streets. They would have known what a crying baby meant. So I had to be kept silent. No, not everyone came out of the war alive.

Item Type:	Book
Divisions:	School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
Date Deposited:	12 Feb 2013 10:28
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2022 17:18
URI / Page ID:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/1363

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