Simone Mansell Broome

Broschiertes Buch

Falafels, some frogs and a ferret

Beschreibung

Through her stories, reminiscences and recollections of her life, Simone Mansell Broome tells us about the people she encounters and the trials and tribulations of life overcome. The child is mother to the woman and the foibles, prejudices and frailties of one generation will surface, inevitably, in the next. Simone Mansell Broome was born in Tenby, grandchild to tenant farmers in Begelly, Pembrokeshire, first child of a man with a troubled relationship to his homeland and a hard-working, dynamic, intensely emotional Englishwoman. The memoir dips in and out of the Tenby of Simone's infancy and early childhood, a later childhood over the border, a turbulent adolescence and onwards into early motherhood. This is not a purely chronological account. It does not wear its heart on its sleeve or dwell self-indulgently on the bad times. This is a series of surprising, mundane, moving and sympathetic vignettes of family life, of an education in school and in love, which seesaws like the playground and fairground rides she recalls from fun to fear, from sunshine to storms. The chapters are linked by the letter 'f'. It's a device to corral and make sense of a large database of life experience; it allows for switches in mood and style, for the reader to sample stories, memories, observations. Even at her most light-hearted moments, she is perceptive, empathetic. Even when quite dark episodes are alluded to, humour isn't very far away. A couple of the chapters and the revelations therein could startle or trouble the easily startled or easily troubled. All will strike a chord, whatever reminiscence the author is sharing.

Autor

Simone is an optimist, business woman, entrepreneur, mother, grandmother, lover of the stage as well as the page, animals and the environment. She has lived on a small organic farm in rural Carmarthenshire since 2007, jointly developing family businesses - Ceridwen Centre and Welsh Green Weddings. She's got a B.A. in English and American Studies and qualifications in teaching, including Speech and Drama and EFL Simone is a published poet in magazines, ezines and anthologies, (as well as one pamphlet, one slim volume and a collection - 'Cardiff Bay Lunch' published by Lapwing, Belfast in 2010). She is a believer in stage and page and has read her work extensively; a significant part of the pleasure in writing for her lies in communicating - talks, readings, workshops, etc. She's dabbled in slams and once represented Wales in a Radio 4 performance poetry competition. There was a flurry of competition success including Winchester and Northampton 1st Prizes, and a number of places and highly commendeds between 2006 and 2010. She's only just started entering again this year. During the craziness of 2020, Simone's writing productivity exploded - a collaboration with an M.A. student at the University of Bucharest on the translation of 50 of Simone's earlier poems, commissioned pieces for ITV Sport for the Cheltenham Festival of Racing and for Royal Ascot and a blog about life in West Wales during the pandemic She published a children's book - 'Valletta and the Year of Changes', in 2021, and a book based on her lockdown blog - 'Pause, 12 months of going nowhere', in December 2022.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambria Books
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 137g
• ISBN-13: 9781999741617
• ISBN-10: 1999741617
• Artikelnr.: 67860052