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Grace and Mary. 
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Publication year: 2014
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: London : Sceptre, 2014.
ISBN: 1444762370 9781444762372 (pbk): 7.99
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Originally published: 2013.
John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea, and mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her memory, he prompts her with songs, photographs and questions about the 1940s, when she was a young woman and he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But he finds that most of all it is her own mother she longs for - Grace, the mother she barely knew. John sets out to recreate their buried family history, delving into the secrets and silences of Mary's fractured childhood as he imagines the life of her spirited mother.
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