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PDF] [EPUB] Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood Download by Kit de Waal. Thoroughly enjoyed this evocative memoir describing the author’s childhood in an area of Birmingham I know very well, but only got to know far more recently than the 1970s. She grew up in 1960s Moseley, that unusual bohemian enclave of Brum where poor kids and posh kids played together and De Waal’s parents, “a little woman from Wexford” and a bus driver from St Kitts, raised five children without ever really growing up themselves.

Kit de Waal navigates the intricacies of growing up Irish, Caribbean and British in 1960s Birmingham in a family home that struggles to contain 4 siblings, a perpetually working mother, a withdrawn and imposing father, and their collective memories, hopes and failed aspirations. A rare moment of plenty are the occasions in the book where her father, who mostly refuses to participate in the care of his children, cooks the corn porridge he grew up with in St Kitts. This memoir is an astonishingly good evocation of the dream and reality of migration to postwar Birmingham, a city that must have seemed flush with cash to anyone moving from elsewhere. The ending felt a bit rushed and the rich detail of the early part of the book wasn't as vivid as the grown up section.A moving, heart-warming account of a girl who grows up in a house with no books except the Bible, gets in with a bad crowd and nearly goes under. One of my recent Summer Reads, Kit de Waal's memoir, is a fascinating, intelligent, charming and affecting read. Arthur, for his part, obsessed with old romantic movies on the telly, comes home from the bus depot laden with “beautiful, beautiful” new shoes and lengths of mohair for bespoke suits, all for himself. Her description in the first chapter about how the world was going to end with earthquakes etc and only the faithful would be saved reminded me of my own Roman Catholic upbringing.

I left the stars blank because I didn't remember anything about it and had to look up a description of the story.Maybe it just makes me feel guilty for not having the ability to feel that forgiveness as wholeheartedly as she seems to. I loved the mother in this book as she was very inventive when it came to earning a living and keeping her family together. It's a memoir filled with warmth, joy and heartbreak, written with the immediacy of a thriller and the poignancy of a love letter.