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'One of those memoirs that remind you why you liked memoirs in the first place... It has the density of a very good novel... As you do with the best writers, you feel lucky to be in Ms. Brockes's company.'--Dwight Garner, The New York TimesA chilling work of psychological suspense and forensic memoir, She Left Me the Gun is a tale of true transformation: the story of a young woman who reinvented herself so completely that her previous life seemed simply to vanish, and of a daughter who transcends her mother's fears and reclaims an abandoned past.“One day I will tell you the story of my life,” promises Emma Brockes's mother, “and you will be amazed.” Brockes grew up hearing only pieces of her mother's past—stories of a rustic childhood in South Africa, glimpses of a bohemian youth in London—and yet knew that crucial facts were still in the dark. A mystery to her friends and family, Paula was clearly a strong, self-invented woman; glamorous, no-nonsense, and frequently out of place in their quaint English village. In awe of Paula's larger-than-life personality, Brockes never asked why her mother emigrated to England or why she never returned to South Africa; never questioned the sour

Who reads She Left Me the Gun : My Mother's Life Before Me?

Author

Emma Brockes

Publisher

[Place of publication not identified]: Penguin Books

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143125365

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Family & Relationships, True Crime, Memoir

Rating

3.39 / 5 (120 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14