Common People: The History of An English Family by Alison Light

Common People: The History of An English Family

Alison Light

352 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional reflective slow-paced
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For readers who are curious about the intricacies of family history, the lives of everyday people, and the power of storytelling to bring the past to life, Common People: The History of An English Family by Alison Light is a deeply moving and challenging journey that will resonate with anyone who has ever wondered about the secrets and surprises hidden within their own family's past.

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“Family history begins with missing persons,” Alison Light writes in Common People. We wonder about those we’ve lost, and those we never knew, about the long skein that led to us, and to here, and to now. So we start exploring.   Most of us, howev...

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