I Know You are Going to be Happy: The Story of a Sixties Family - Couverture rigide

"Compulsive read... What makes it fascinating is witnessing Christiansen's attempt to establish a relationship with his father, for the first time, in these pages... Powerful and haunting." --The Guardian

"Rupert Christiansen's memoir offers an account of family heartbreak, told with no self-pity but with great tenderness for the lost parents. It is also a mystery story. Most of all this is the history of a consciousness and its conscience, both richly aware and unfashionably, grandly, fierce."--Candia McWilliam

"Christiansen writes elegant prose, and describes his subjects with an elegiac compassion." --Jessica Mann, Literary Review

"Funny, truthful, and in the end a very painful account of the devastation caused to a small boy by his father leaving the family... Reading Christiansen's tender, insightful, clear-eyed account of it all is a remarkable experience."-- Observer

"This evocative portrayal of a single parent family in the Fifties reminds us that nothing in history seems so distant as the day before yesterday." --Mail on Sunday

"Dance and music critic Christiansen gives a moving, unsparing account of how promising careers in journalism and the good wishes of friends for their marriage turned sour for his mother and father." -- --Saga Magazine

***Winner of the Spear's Book Awards Memoir of the Year 2013***

A young man who was pushed forward by family expectation, a young woman pulled back...

A wedding at a fashionable London church in 1948 between two brilliant journalists, deeply in love - the ambitious and sophisticated son of a famous Fleet Street editor, and a beautiful twenty-one-year-old girl from a different social class who was boldly breaking the barriers on women working in newspapers.

Through this poignant and perceptive portrait of his parents' impassioned marriage and acrimonious divorce, Rupert Christiansen chronicles with novelistic power a generation for whom the experience of the sixties brought emotional chaos as well as liberation.