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Item Details
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A YORKSHIRE BOYHOOD
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| By: |
Roy Hattersley |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£10.99 |
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£9.89 |
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£1.10 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0349116555 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780349116556 |
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| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
4 December, 2003 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
Roy Hattersley's classic childhood memoir, with a new Introduction and Epilogue. Roy discovers that his parents weren't married and re-visits the scene of his childhood. |
| Synopsis: |
It was not until he was dead and I was forty that I realised my father was once in Holy Orders,' Roy Hattersley tells us in the opening pages of A YORKSHIRE BOYHOOD; so setting the tone for an elegant, continually surprising book. A somewhat precocious only child, Roy grew up surrounded by protective, ever-anxious adults, equally determined to expose him to books and to shield him from germs -- second-hand books were decontaminated by a sharp session in the oven. Uncle Ernest, a timber merchant's clerk celebrated for his skill at 'fretwork and the manipulation of Indian clubs'; a ten-year feud with the next-door neighbours; unwavering devotion to Sheffield Wednesday - all the pleasures and pangs of northern working-class childhood are magnificently evoked as Roy Hattersley takes us through the hardships of the Thirties and the Blitz; and into the 1940s, the 11-plus examination and Grammar School. Completely updated, A YORKSHIRE BOYHOOD is an autobiographical essay of unusual wit, eloquence and candour. |
| Illustrations: |
8pp of b&w illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Abacus |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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