Présentation de l'éditeur
This book is a true story about what it is like to be married to a war reporter and what it is like to have one for a dad. It s about being five-years old and wondering why Daddy s boots are covered in mud from a mass grave and who was in it. It s about sitting on the sofa at home and watching cruise missiles rain down on your father s head - then eating your baked beans and doing your homework. It s the story of five kids growing up in the New Europe and trying to work out why some countries supermarket shelves are empty and others groan with hundreds of different loo cleaners. How do they come to terms with the past, the present and the future, especially when the ghosts of Auschwitz come close to home and the scars of war are not easy to heal? And how do they work out who they are when their roots are scattered across the continent what shall I be today: British, French, Jewish, Irish Catholic, English Protestant or how about Serbian or even Romanian
Revue de presse
"Rosie Whitehouse s book is fresh. I have never read anything even remotely like it before." --Asne Seierstad, author of The Bookseller of Kabul (Little, Brown 2003)
Her courage and humorous versatility come across vividly in her lively narrative of first hand encounters with a difficult violent world. --The Times
This is a book about war, love and family, but for once, not told by a journalist but by a real woman, a mother and a wife. Funny and intelligent, Are We There Yet? is a truly good read. --Janine di Giovanni, author of Madness Visible: A memoir of war (Bloomsbury 2005).
Biographie de l'auteur
Rosie Whitehouse studied International History and then Russian Government and Politics at the London School of Economics. She had a successful career at the BBC World Service until she became a mum. She then spent five years as a housewife in the war-torn Balkans married to the correspondent of The Economist. Back in London she continued developing her ironing skills as she built a new career as a freelance journalist. Rosie has written on parenting and family issues for a wide range of newspapers and magazines and is the author of Take the Kids: South of France (Cadogan, 2003). Rosie lives in Shepherd s Bush with her husband the frontline reporter Tim Judah and their five children.
