The Children of Lovers

The Children of Lovers: A memoir of William Golding by his Daughter - by Judy Golding - is a frank and engaging family memoir of one of our best-loved and most influential authors.

Judy Golding was born in Marlborough, Wiltshire, in 1945 and grew up near Salisbury, where her parents worked as teachers. She read English at the University of Sussex and St. Anne's College, Oxford, and in 1971 she married an American studying politics at Balliol. Subsequently, she worked as a copyeditor for Oxford University Press and Jonathan Cape. She and her husband have three sons and three grandchildren and live in Bristol. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs The Children of Lovers: A memoir of William Golding by his Daughter - by Judy Golding - is a frank and engaging family memoir of one of our best-loved and most influential authors. Zusammenfassung 'The Children of Lovers are Orphans.' Proverb Bestselling novelist, author of Lord of the Flies , William Golding was a famously acute observer of children. What was it like to be his daughter? In this frank and engaging family memoir, Judy Golding recalls growing up with a brilliant, loving, sometimes difficult parent. The years of her childhood and adolescence saw her father change from an impecunious schoolteacher to a famous novelist. Once adult, she came to understand some of the internal conflicts which led to his writing. The Golding family life, both ordinary and extraordinary, always kept its characteristic warmth, humour, complexity, anger and love, danger and insecurity. This is a book about family and parents, about lovers and their children, and about our impact on one another - for good or ill.

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The Children of Lovers: A memoir of William Golding by his Daughter - by Judy Golding - is a frank and engaging family memoir of one of our best-loved and most influential authors.

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'The Children of Lovers are Orphans.' Proverb Bestselling novelist, author of "Lord of the Flies", William Golding was a famously acute observer of children. What was it like to be his daughter? This memoir recalls the author's growing up with a brilliant, loving, sometimes difficult parent.

Zusammenfassung
'The Children of Lovers are Orphans.' Proverb

Bestselling novelist, author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding was a famously acute observer of children. What was it like to be his daughter?

In this frank and engaging family memoir, Judy Golding recalls growing up with a brilliant, loving, sometimes difficult parent. The years of her childhood and adolescence saw her father change from an impecunious schoolteacher to a famous novelist. Once adult, she came to understand some of the internal conflicts which led to his writing.

The Golding family life, both ordinary and extraordinary, always kept its characteristic warmth, humour, complexity, anger and love, danger and insecurity. This is a book about family and parents, about lovers and their children, and about our impact on one another - for good or ill.

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