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In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home? This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live. Set against the backdrop of a London from the 1950s to the present day, The Clothes on Their Backs is a wise and tender novel about the clothes we choose to wear, the personalities we dress ourselves in, and about how they define us all.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Clothes On Their Backs
• Author: Linda Grant
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9781844085422
• ISBN: 1844085422
• ID: 04262703
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 216 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. April 2009

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