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I’ve been wanting to celebrate Maisie Mosco as a Manchester woman writer for some time. I found a set of her popular Almonds and Raisins trilogy in our wonderful second-hand book sale and read it with great pleasure, and I have read Louis Golding’s Magnolia Street in the past which tells a similar story. And our recent blog about the re-opening of the inspiring Manchester Jewish Museum has given me the push I needed!
The trilogy is made up of three novels: Almonds and Raisins published in 1979, Scattered Seed (1980) and Children’s Children (1981). These were followed by Out of the Ashes in 1990, and New Beginnings in 1992, which I haven’t yet read. The first three books follow the Sandbergs, a Jewish family arriving in Manchester from Russia in the early twentieth century to escape the Jewish pogroms, and trace their busy history and the history of Jewish people in Manchester until the 1960s. The books are a page-turning read in the best tradition of the family saga!
Maisie Mosco drew on the history and experiences of her own family in creating the characters and the scenarios she explores in the books. She was born in Oldham on December 7, 1924 and was the eldest child in her family. Her mother and father were
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“The Almonds and Raisons trilogy is telling from the inside what our story has been…” Maisie Mosco
In this full interview, originally published in edited form in the Manchester magazine UpTown in 1989, Maisie Mosco, who died in 2011, explains the raison d’etre of the Almonds and Raisins trilogy, which originally spanned three books – Almonds and Raisins, Scattered Seedand Children’s Children – before she felt compelled to add a fourth, Out of the Ashes, to expose the new neo-Nazism.
“All my books, although I write them as popular fiction, are all just a popular fiction treatment of very serious themes. Since I’m a Jewish writer, and write from my Jewish roots as well as my northern roots, my books really mean something to me, they’re not just a way of making money, and I hope that is obvious to people who read them.
“There’s no doubt that Jewish people buy the books because most of what I write about are things about which they feel very deeply, and the Almonds and Raisons trilogy is telling from the inside what our story has been. It has been a big struggle which I didn’t really understand myself until I started researching for the trilogy. And then I began to think, ‘Well here I am, second generation British’, and I’d never looked at myself
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