"What Is She Doing Here?" is a memoir of the five years Kate Clanchy spent living closely with Antigona, a Kosovan refugee. Antigona becomes her project, her protegee, her cleaner, her nanny, and slowly, through hours of conversation and negotiations of difference, her friend. Through the story of their growing understanding is woven the dramatic tale of Antigona's great escape - from Milosevic, from her forced, violent marriage, and from the most traditional pastoral society in Europe - and the growing toll of her losses, as she and her rebellious teenage daughters negotiate London. Antigona's wit and vertiginous perspectives on contemporary life illuminate and transform the way Kate thinks, bringing many hard truths uncomfortably close to home. 'Kate Clanchy has written not just a heart-stopping story, but one that is essential for our times' - Anne Enright.
- ISBN10 0330443828
- ISBN13 9780330443821
- Publish Date 6 June 2008
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 29 March 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Picador
- Edition Abridged edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English