{"product_id":"this-time-next-year-well-be-laughing-paperback","title":"This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacqueline Winspear\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2021 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Critical\/Biographical\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Jacqueline Winspear has created a memoir of her English childhood that is every bit as engaging as her Maisie Dobbs novels, just as rich in character and detail, history and humanity. Her writing is lovely, elegant and welcoming.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Anne Lamott\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her family's resilience in the face of war and privation.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her story tackles the difficult, poignant, and fascinating family accounts of her paternal grandfather's shellshock; her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during WWII; her parents' years living with Romany Gypsies; and Winspear's own childhood picking hops and fruit on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An eye-opening and heartfelt portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, \u003ci\u003eThis Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles a childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacqueline Winspear \u003c\/b\u003ewas born and raised in Kent, England. After graduating from the University of London's Institute of Education, she worked in academic publishing, higher education, and marketing communications. She emigrated to the United States in 1990. She has written fifteen novels in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling Maisie Dobbs series, which has won numerous awards, including the Agatha, Macavity, and Alex. Her standalone novel about the Great War, \u003ci\u003eThe Care and Management of Lies\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She lives in California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42161959960711,"sku":"9781641292948","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e1dd9bb8f5f8de0a92caba019f4b998f.webp?v=1733285426","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/this-time-next-year-well-be-laughing-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}