The Clothes On Their Backs

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.

Title - The Clothes On Their Backs

Edition -

Author - Linda Grant

ISBN 13 - 9781844085415

Imprint - Virago Press Ltd

Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group

Date Published - 07/02/2008

Prize -

No. of pages - 304

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 135 x 216 x mm

Weight - g

Languages - English