Audiobook Review: This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing
Title: This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir Author: Jacqueline Winspear. Read by the author. Publication Info: Audible Audio, 2020; 10 hours. Hardcover Soho Press, 2020. 303 pages. Source: Library Digital Resources Publisher’s Blurb: After 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 memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as 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 Romani Gypsies; and Jacqueline’s own childhood working on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception. An eye-opening and heartfelt portrayal of a post-War England we rarely