{"product_id":"9781472979421","title":"Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca","description":"Author: Ferdinand Mount\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781472979421\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 05 Jan 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 Format: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' \u003c\/b\u003e    Hilary Mantel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eDelightfully compulsive and unforgettably original'\u003c\/b\u003e     Hadley Freeman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAunt Munca never told the truth about anything. Calling herself after the mouse in a Beatrix Potter story, she was already a figure of mystery during the childhood of her nephew Ferdinand Mount. Half a century later, a series of startling revelations sets him off on a tortuous quest to find out who this extraordinary millionairess really was. What he discovers is shocking and irretrievably sad, involving multiple deceptions, false identities and abandonments. The story leads us from the back streets of Sheffield at the end of the Victorian age to the highest echelons of English society between the wars. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKiss Myself Goodbye \u003c\/i\u003eis both an enchanting personal memoir like the author's bestselling \u003ci\u003eCold Cream, \u003c\/i\u003eand a voyage into a vanished moral world. An unconventional tale of British social history told backwards, its cryptic and unforgettable protagonist Munca joins the ranks of memorable aunts in literature, from Dickens' Betsy Trotwood to Graham Greene's Aunt Augusta.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46629794250910,"sku":"UBD-9781472979421","price":42.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781472979421.jpg?v=1774221206","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781472979421","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}