All at sea : a memoir / Decca Aitkenhead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aitkenhead, Decca, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aitkenhead, Decca.

Journalists--Great Britain--Biography.

Journalists.

Great Britain.

Bereavement.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

225 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First United States edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2016]

Summary:

"A beautifully written, breathtakingly honest, unsentimental, and profound memoir from one of the UK's most popular journalists. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead's life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water's edge when a wave pulled him out to sea. Her partner, Tony, swam out and saved their son's life--then drowned before her eyes. When Decca and Tony first met, a decade earlier, she was a renowned Guardian journalist, profiling leading politicians of the day; he was a dreadlocked criminal with a history of drug dealing and violence. No one thought the romance would last, but it did--until the tide swept Tony away, plunging Decca into the dark chasm of random tragedy. Exploring race and redemption, privilege and prejudice, All at Sea is a remarkable story of love and loss, of how one couple changed each other's lives, and of what a sudden death can do to the people who survive"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780385540650

0385540655

OCLC:

931642275