The Last Day of January - Decker, Greer
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It's August 2019 and Sarah takes up a one-year teaching position in her home county of Suffolk, after teaching in London for thirty years. She moves back to her mother's house as Joan, 83, has growing dementia. Being a carer is much tougher than she had anticipated. Added to this, Sarah is still fuming over Brexit and a lack of political responsibility as she sees it. She loved cosmopolitan London and is unsure about living and working in a rural and Brexit strong environment. Sarah's sister Rachel and family live in Berlin and tensions arise between the sisters as they come to terms with…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
It's August 2019 and Sarah takes up a one-year teaching position in her home county of Suffolk, after teaching in London for thirty years. She moves back to her mother's house as Joan, 83, has growing dementia. Being a carer is much tougher than she had anticipated. Added to this, Sarah is still fuming over Brexit and a lack of political responsibility as she sees it. She loved cosmopolitan London and is unsure about living and working in a rural and Brexit strong environment. Sarah's sister Rachel and family live in Berlin and tensions arise between the sisters as they come to terms with their mother's condition. On the upside, Sarah enjoys the new school and develops feelings for a fellow teacher. Additionally, Sarah gets involved when an ex-pupil goes missing. Trouble is also programmed with Joan's elderly friend Shirley. In her new quieter rural setting, Sarah's life therefore increases in complexity in the five months leading up to Brexit Day, with issues from the minute to the global: relationships, interactions, belonging, and acceptance to politics, discrimination and cyberbullying. Will she be able to take positive actions to reconcile her feelings on all fronts?
Autorenporträt
Die Autorin, Jahrgang 1967, wuchs in der ländlichen Grafschaft Suffolk in England auf. Nach dem Abschluss ihres Germanistikstudiums in Norwich 1989 zog sie nach München, wo sie als Übersetzerin im Patentrechtsbereich tätig war. 1997 absolvierte sie ein pädagogisches Studium an der Universität von Cambridge. Danach führte sie ihr Lebensweg nach Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart und Berlin. Seit 1999 arbeitet sie für eine deutsche Großbank, zunächst als Übersetzerin und zuletzt im Bereich Compliance. 2004 fand sie mit ihrer Familie in Berlin ein Zuhause. 2014 kehrte sie noch einmal mit ihrer Familie für einen Zeitraum von fünf Jahren nach England zurück, diesmal nach London. Im Dezember 2016 wurde ihr die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft verliehen. Seit 2019 lebt sie wieder in Berlin.