A Dress for Kathleen Format:Paperback Adham Smart

Adham Smart

which he taped to his wrists

beauty and truth-telling

also the Timbuktu-born novelist Omar al-Ansari and the talented young Saudi author Mohammed Hasan Alwan

Paris and Amsterdam

A Dress for Kathleen Format:Paperback Adham SmartEvery family has shadow people, the ones who slipped out of the story too soon, leaving a blank space where they should have been. In my fathers family that person was his sister Kathleen. So begins Heather Richardsons astonishing fragmentary celebration of her aunt, Kathleen Hutchinson, whose life was cut tragically short aged just 14. It is the early days of WW2 and Kathleen has just left school to start her first job at a linen mill. But this dark