Send Me A Parcel With A Hundred Lovely Things

In her memoir Carry Gorney considers how her own life was shaped by her refugee antecedents' experience of displacement and reinvention - ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times in the twentieth century.

The book includes extracts from her parents' letters, revealing a historic resentment and suspicion of refugees and a unique picture of the internment camps on the Isle of Man.

A neat drip-dry childhood of the fifties in grey northern drizzle is counterbalanced by her aunties' rainbo...