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“clair wills”

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  • Lovers and Strangers

    An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain

    by Clair Wills ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018**TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its richness' Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian'Groundbreaking, sophisticated, original, open-minded ... essential reading for anyone who wants to understand not only the transformation of British society after the war but also its character today' Piers Brendon, Literary Review ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Missing Persons

    or, My Grandmother's Secrets

    by Clair Wills ...
    How far would you go for the missing?Blending private and public history, cultural analysis, family memoir, and autobiography, Clair Wills explores profound questions about memory, loss, motherhood, and emigration. She traces a history of sexual secrecy through four generations of unplanned pregnancies in her own family, stretching from the 1890s to the 1980s and from the West of Ireland to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Best Are Leaving

    Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture

    by Clair Wills ...
    Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is an important and wide-ranging study of post-war Irish emigrant culture. Wills analyses representations of emigrants from Ireland and of Irish immigrants in Britain across a range of discourses, including official documents, sociological texts, clerical literature, journalism, drama, literary fiction, and popular literature and film. This book, written by a ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Missing Persons

    by Clair Wills ...
    Narrated by Clair Wills ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 4 min

    In 2015, the Irish government commissioned an investigation into the state’s network of Mother and Baby Homes after the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of up to eight hundred children prompted international outrage. The homes, which operated from the 1920s to the 1990s, were responsible for nearly nine thousand child deaths and countless other abuses. Yet in the face of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD