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Krissy Kneen’s latest memoir provided me with a wonderful reading experience. Part loving tribute to her fierce, secretive grandmother, and part genealogical mystery, it gave me an insight to a family quite different from my own and to a 20th century cultural phenomenon that I knew nothing about; the Aleksandrinke of the Goriška region of Slovenia.
So close in life that Krissy called her grandmother ‘Mum’, it was only in death that Krissy felt able to delve into the past of her family’s formidab ...more
So close in life that Krissy called her grandmother ‘Mum’, it was only in death that Krissy felt able to delve into the past of her family’s formidab ...more
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