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Ethel & Ernest
  • Published: 15 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9781911214601
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 104
  • RRP: $42.99

Ethel & Ernest

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EBook
19 Aug 2016
EBook
1 July 2010
Tr. Paperback
15 Nov 2016
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Raymond Brigg`s most extraordinary and most appealing book yet - a tender, moving, warmly funny tribute to his parents: Ethel and Ernest - now a major animated film starring Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn and Luke Treadaway


A marvellous, life-enhancing book for all ages, now a major animated film starring Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn and Luke Treadaway

Utterly original, deeply moving and very funny, Ethel & Ernest tells the story of Raymond Briggs' parents' marriage, lady's maid Ethel and milkman Ernest, from their first chance encounter in 1928, through the birth of their son Raymond in 1934, to their deaths, within months of each other, in 1971.

Told in Brigg`s unique strip-cartoon format, Ethel and Ernest live through the defining moments of the twentieth century: the darkness of the Great Depression, the build up to World War II, the trials of the war years, the euphoria of VE Day and the emergence of a generation from post war austerity to the cultural enlightenment of the 1960s.

Ethel & Ernest is a heartfelt and affectionate tribute to an ordinary couple and an extraordinary generation.
  • Published: 15 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9781911214601
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 104
  • RRP: $42.99
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About the author

Raymond Briggs

Raymond Briggs is one of the most successful picture book creators of our time. His books include classics, such as Father Christmas, The Snowman, and Fungus the Bogeyman. Several of his books have been televised and When the Wind Blows has also been staged as theater. Briggs won the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration twice and his book Ug was the winner of the Nestlé Smarties Silver Award. He lives in Sussex, England. 
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Also by Raymond Briggs

Time For Lights Out
The Snowman Pop-Up
The Snowman
Father Christmas
The Snowman: The Book of the Classic Film
Jim and the Beanstalk
The Elephant and the Bad Baby
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Praise for Ethel & Ernest

Briggs has always had the ability to move his readers, but never more powerfully than this.

Stephen Pritchard, Guardian

As our memory of pre-Niketown Britain fades, we should be grateful that Raymond Briggs is so brilliantly equipped to remind us of what we used to be, and why.

Nick Hornby, New York Times

Ethel & Ernest imparts, as the best novels do, the sense of lived lives. It’s not too much to say you come to love these people... Briggs’ book earns our tears. Ethel & Ernest is a just about perfect miniature: small in scale, not in spirit.

Charles Taylor, Salon