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    Our Mother's House
    Our Mother's House
    Our Mother's House
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    Our Mother's House

    By Julian Gloag

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    "Mother died at five fifty-eight."

    So begins this story of seven extraordinary children who, faced with the unknown terrors of an orphanage, decide not to report their mother's death. They bury her in the garden, telling people only that she's too sick to have visitors.

    Then a menacing stranger appears, claiming to be their father. He agrees to keep their secret-and from that moment the story moves relentlessly to its mesmerizing climax.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateApr 16, 2012
    ISBN9781448208517
    Our Mother's House
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    Julian Gloag

    Julian Gloag was born and brought up largely in London. After graduating from Cambridge University, he spent several years in New York publishing. Following the publication of Our Mother's House in 1963, he began to devote his full time to writing leading with the critically acclaimed A Sentence of Life (1966).

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    • 4/5
      I read this book this month because, well, I was living in my mother’s house after her death.Originally published in 1963, this was one of my favourite books when I was a teenager in the sixties.In pre-internet days, books were harder to find, even though I was enjoying the adult library lending privilege of six books at a time. And it was rarer still for me to own a book and this, being definitely an adult book with child protagonists, made me feel grown-up while still identifying with the kids. So, it was a favourite even though it really isn’t all that good.In 1960s London, not wanting to be put in an orphanage and split up, a family of seven children bury their mother (dead of natural causes) in the backyard and say that she is too sick to receive visitors. Shades of The Death of Bees, but darker.I gather this was made into a 1967 film by British director Jack Clayton. 3½ stars

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