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This book can be described as an 'oblique memoir'. The central underlying and repeated themes of the are exile displacement; lives (and deaths) during Third Reich; mother-daughter sibling relationships; generational transmission trauma experience; transatlantic reflections; struggle for creative expression. Stories mobilised, people encountered, in course narrative include: internment aliens Britain Second World War; cultural life Rochester, New York, 1920s; social personal meanings colour(s). It also includes industrialist philanthropist, Henry Simon Manchester, including his relationship with Norwegian explorer, Fridtjof Nansen; liberal British campaigner MP 1940s, Eleanor Rathbone; reflections on images spinsters. text is supplemented interrupted throughout by (photographs, paintings, facsimile documents), some which serve to illustrate story, others engaging indirectly written word. explains how forced persists through generations a family history. showcases differences between English American cultures. focuses incidence cancers caused exposure radioactivity England, impact it had Anglo-American relations.
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