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Nothing Holds Back The Night

In this moving autobiographical novel, the narrator`s mother, Lucile, raises her two daughters largely alone. A former child model from a large Bohemian family, Lucile is younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick and stylishly dressed, wayward and wonderful. But as the years pass her occasional sadness gives way to overwhelming despair and delusion. This is a story of luminous beauty and rambunctious joy, of dark secrets and silences, revelations and, ultimately, the unknowability of even those closest to us. And in the face of the unknowable, personal history becomes fiction. Nothing Holds Back the Night is universally recognisable and singularly heartbreaking.

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In this moving autobiographical novel, the narrator`s mother, Lucile, raises her two daughters largely alone. A former child model from a large Bohemian family, Lucile is younger & more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick & stylishly dressed, wayward & wonderful. But as the years pass her occasional sadness gives way to overwhelming despair & delusion. This is a story of luminous beauty & rambunctious joy, of dark secrets & silences, revelations &, ultimately, the unknowability of even those closest to us. & in the face of the unknowable, personal history becomes fiction. Nothing Holds Back the Night is universally recognisable & singularly heartbreaking.

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Dark - A colour which absorbs visable ligt so apears less light than objects that reflect light

History - Anything that happens in the past. An acedemic subject.

Large - something that takes up more space than normal.

Personal - Something that belongs more to an individual due to it affecting them more by relating to them.

Model - A representation of a person or thing, usually smaller scale. It can also be a person that wears clothing.

Family - A group of people that live together made up from parents and children.

Wonderful - Another word for describing something that is extremely good, marvellous.

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