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Author Aitkenhead, Decca, author.

Title All at sea : a memoir / Decca Aitkenhead.

Publication Info. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2016]

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. AITKENHEAD, D.    Storage
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B AITKENHEAD    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-AITKENHEAD AIT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  070.92 AI93    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B AITKENHEAD, D.    Check Shelf
Edition First United States edition.
Description 225 pages ; 21 cm
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.
Subject Aitkenhead, Decca.
Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Bereavement.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- General.
Aitkenhead, Decca. (OCoLC)fst00493305
Bereavement. (OCoLC)fst00830665
Journalists. (OCoLC)fst00984188
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Genre/Form Autobiographies (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780385540650 (hardback)
0385540655 (hardback)
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