Nicola Briggs
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom
Genres: Biography, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction
Nicola Briggs was born in Luton, England, but considers herself a Yorkshire lass, despite having Lancastrian parents and receiving an education in the Cotswold town of Cheltenham. She practised as a probate and property lawyer in Huddersfield, Dewsbury, and Wilmslow for the best part of forty years. Much as she enjoyed her time serving the needs of her clients, when the burning need to write a memoir took over, she wasted no time at all in loosening her chains to the office. She lives in Derbyshire with her partner and two cats. When not sitting at her writing desk, Nicola enjoys riding out on sunny days on her Harley, walking along the rivers and limestone dales of the Peak District National park, and feeding chocolate to her grandchildren.
Nicola Briggs' books
Genres: Biography, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
Nicola Briggs grew up in a beautiful Georgian house in Huddersfield, which she loved, but she didn’t realise how much until her parents sent her away to a prestigious boarding school at eleven. From then on, the idea of ‘home’ became a distant dream, a place she could only enjoy for sixteen weeks a year, a home that slipped further from her grasp with every term-time goodbye. In this unflinching coming-of-age memoir, Nicola pulls back the curtain on a respectable Yorkshire family dominated by a brilliant, charismatic, and deeply flawed solicitor father whose bigotry and anti-immigration tirades seeped into every corner of their lives. Behind the façade of middle-class comfort in 1960s and 70s England lies a harsher reality: the casual racism, social climbing, and suffocating expectations that shaped a generation, expectations that Nicola was expected to accept. But would she? Told with sharp wit, emotional honesty, and clear-eyed insight,...