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From the awardwinning author of MY NAME IS LEON THE TRICK TO TIME and SUPPORTING CAST comes a childhood memoir set to become a classic stinging warmhearted and true

Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes Her haphazard mother rarely cooked forbade Christmas and birthdays worked as a cleaner nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975 Meanwhile her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his relatives in the Caribbean cooked elaborate meals on a whim and splurged money they didnt have on cars suits and shoes fit for a prince Both of her parents were waiting for paradise It never came

Caught between three worlds Irish Caribbean and British in 1960s Birmingham Kit and her brothers and sisters knew all the words to the best songs caught sticklebacks in jam jars and braved hunger and hellfire until they could all escape

WITHOUT WARNING AND ONLY SOMETIMES is a story of an extraordinary childhood and how a girl who grew up in house where the Bible was the only book on offer went on to discover a love of reading that inspires her to this day

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