Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca

Kiss Myself Goodbye is a captivating personal memoir and a voyage into a vanished moral world, following the life of Aunt Munca, a mysterious figure in Ferdinand Mount's childhood. It explores British social history backwards, featuring a cryptic and unforgettable protagonist.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 29 October 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page – Hilary Mantel Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2021 Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original – Hadley Freeman Kiss Myself Goodbye is both an enchanting personal memoir like the author's bestselling Cold Cream, and a voyage into a vanished moral world. An unconventional tale of British social history told backwards, its cryptic and unforgettable protagonist Munca joins the ranks of memorable aunts in literature, from Dickens' Betsy Trotwood to Graham Greene's Aunt Augusta. Kiss Myself Goodbye is a gripping and unforgettable novel that explores the life of Aunt Munca, a mysterious figure who lived during the Victorian age. Half a century later, a series of startling revelations sets her nephew Ferdinand Mount on a tortuous quest to find out who this extraordinary millionairess really was. What he discovers is shocking and irretrievably sad, involving multiple deceptions, false identities, and abandonments. The story leads us from the back streets of Sheffield at the end of the Victorian age to the highest echelons of English society between the wars. Kiss Myself Goodbye is both an enchanting personal memoir like the author's bestselling Cold Cream, and a voyage into a vanished moral world. An unconventional tale of British social history told backwards, its cryptic and unforgettable protagonist Munca joins the ranks of memorable aunts in literature, from Dickens' Betsy Trotwood to Graham Greene's Aunt Augusta.

Weight: 542g
Dimension: 162 x 241 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472979421