Bibliograph

All at sea, a memoir, Decca Aitkenhead

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All at sea, a memoir, Decca Aitkenhead

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

All at sea

Oclc number

931642275

Responsibility statement

Decca Aitkenhead

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

"A beautifully written, breathtakingly honest, unsentimental, and profound memoir from one of the UK's most popular journalists. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead's life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water's edge when a wave pulled him out to sea. Her partner, Tony, swam out and saved their son's life--then drowned before her eyes. When Decca and Tony first met, a decade earlier, she was a renowned Guardian journalist, profiling leading politicians of the day; he was a dreadlocked criminal with a history of drug dealing and violence. No one thought the romance would last, but it did--until the tide swept Tony away, plunging Decca into the dark chasm of random tragedy. Exploring race and redemption, privilege and prejudice, All at Sea is a remarkable story of love and loss, of how one couple changed each other's lives, and of what a sudden death can do to the people who survive"--, Provided by publisher

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