Island summers : memories of a Norwegian childhood
Culme-Seymour, Tilly, 1981-2014
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In 1947 Tilly's grandmother bought an island - it sits just off the coast of Norway. At first sight, the island seems bare, hardly more than a collection of rocks rising determinedly out of the water. But Mor-mor, as she was known, could see that the island was more than that when she purchased it in exchange for a mink coat. She built a two-storeyed wooden cabin on the island and this is where Mor-mor and her young family would come every summer, escaping their mollycoddled life in the English countryside to run wild, get burnt, forage for juniper berries, thieve for gull eggs and swim in the shining sea.
Main title:
Island summers : memories of a Norwegian childhood / Tilly Culme-Seymour.
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Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2014.London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Collation:
290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2013.
ISBN:
9781408843314 (pbk)
Dewey class:
948.1
Language:
English
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BRN:
1203761