Ferdinand Mount.
ferdinand mount: BIOGRAPHY OF HIS AUNT MUNCA
kiss myself goodbye: the many lives of aunt munca (2020)
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Ferdinand Mount tells the extraordinary and hilarious tale of his Aunt Munca. The child of a working class family in Sheffield, she rose from her humble origins to marry into wealthy high society between the World Wars. An elusive figure, who several times changed her name and her identity, Aunt Munca’s life was one of deception, abandonment, and social success. The book was described by Hadley Freeman as ‘delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original’.
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Sir Ferdinand Mount, a baronet, (born 1939) was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. From 1982 to 1983 he worked at Conservative Party headquarters as haed of the Number 10 Policy Unit, where he played a major part in writing the 1983 Conservative Party election manifesto. He was for eleven years from 1991 the editor of the Times Literary Supplement, later writing for the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, and the London Review of Books. He has authored several books, including a six-volume novel sequence called Chronicle of Modern Twilight.
