Download or read book Stan and Nan written by Sarah Lippett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My nan wrote me many letters back in 2011. They were about the love of her life, my grandad, Stanley Burndred. Iâe(tm)ve never met him, he died long before I was born, but his drawings, paintings and ceramics have been in my life for as long as I can remember. Every wall of Nanâe(tm)s house would be decorated by his artworks and every windowsill bore his ceramic creations. Whenever we visited Nan in the Black Country I would study the ornaments and pictures, wondering who had made them. It wasnâe(tm)t until I wrote to Nan many years later, receiving in return beautiful handwritten letters detailing his life, that it became apparent that the work was his. The letters were so beautiful I felt my nanâe(tm)s story had to be told. Stan and Nan is the story of an ordinary couple and the people who loved them. The narrative follows their lives from Stanâe(tm)s working-class background, to his premature death, through to Nanâe(tm)s struggle to cope, and the perils of ageing. It is a memoir about the importance of family, and about death, love, living and human connection.