Helen Harris Brondesbury Tapestry Paperback Book

Six women and one man gather in a community centre in North London for a life writing class run by Dorothy, their uniquely unqualified teacher. They have urgent stories to tell and, as they recount them, they discover they are connected in unexpected ways. There is Iris, eighty years old but still with a taste for younger men Pearl singlehandedly bringing up her grandson, enigmatic hooded Kai elusive Renee Sabine whose happy Belgian childhood may not have been as happy as it sounds mixedup Esther Edgar whose winning ways charm them all and of course there is Enid, the retired art teacher, who insists on telling her story in pictures not words. Illustrated with sharp line drawings by illustrator Beatrice BaumgartnerCohen, The Brondesbury Tapestry is a quirky, perceptive look at a group of people who feel the modern world has left them behind but who have decided that they will still have the last word. | Helen Harris Brondesbury Tapestry Paperback Book