Antigona and Me

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, British & Irish, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Kate Clanchy ISBN: 9780330509381
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publication: September 18, 2009
Imprint: Picador Language: English
Author: Kate Clanchy
ISBN: 9780330509381
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication: September 18, 2009
Imprint: Picador
Language: English

‘Antigona,’ I said. ‘How would you feel if I wrote your life down in a book?’

‘Good,’ she said at once. ‘Good. And then a feature film, actually. Mini-series.’

One morning in London, two neighbours start to chat over the heads of their children. Kate Clanchy is a writer, privileged and sheltered, Antigona is a refugee from Kosovo. On instinct, Kate offers Antigona a job as a nanny, and Antigona, equally shrewdly, accepts. Over the next five years and a thousand cups of coffee Antigona’s extraordinary story slowly emerges. She has escaped from a war, she has divorced a violent husband, but can she escape the harsh code she was brought up with, the Kanun of Lek? At the kitchen table where anything can be said, the women discover they have everything, as well as nothing, in common.

‘Clanchy’s portrait of Antigona is wonderfully vivid, as are her reflections on her own complex feelings. A powerfully written, refreshingly honest work.’ Observer

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‘Antigona,’ I said. ‘How would you feel if I wrote your life down in a book?’

‘Good,’ she said at once. ‘Good. And then a feature film, actually. Mini-series.’

One morning in London, two neighbours start to chat over the heads of their children. Kate Clanchy is a writer, privileged and sheltered, Antigona is a refugee from Kosovo. On instinct, Kate offers Antigona a job as a nanny, and Antigona, equally shrewdly, accepts. Over the next five years and a thousand cups of coffee Antigona’s extraordinary story slowly emerges. She has escaped from a war, she has divorced a violent husband, but can she escape the harsh code she was brought up with, the Kanun of Lek? At the kitchen table where anything can be said, the women discover they have everything, as well as nothing, in common.

‘Clanchy’s portrait of Antigona is wonderfully vivid, as are her reflections on her own complex feelings. A powerfully written, refreshingly honest work.’ Observer

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