TY  - BOOK
AU  - Light,Alison
TI  - A radical romance: a memoir of love, grief and consolation 
SN  - 0241975352
AV  - DA591.L44 A3 2020
U1  - 941.085092 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - [London]
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Light, Alison,
KW  - Samuel, Raphael.
KW  - Social historians
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Families
KW  - fast
KW  - History
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Originally published by Fig Tree, 2019; P.B; P.B
N2  - Alison Light met the radical social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. 20 years her senior, Raphael was a charismatic figure on the British Left, utterly driven by his work and by a commitment to collective politics. Within a year they were married. Within 10, Raphael would be dead. Theirs was an attraction of opposites - he from a Jewish Communist family with its roots in Russia and Eastern Europe, she from the English working class. In this chronicle of a passionate marriage, Alison Light peels back the layers of their time together, its intimacies and its estrangements. She tells of moving into Raphael's cluttered 18th-century house in Spitalfields and into his equally full, unconventional life; of the whirlwind of change outside their door which transformed London's old East End districts; of being widowed at 41, and finding inspiration in her friendship with Raphael's mother
ER  -