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Synopsis
The author recounts his experiences growing up in the British Midlands during World War II
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About the Author
Tom Wakefield was born of a mining family in the Midlands. His previous books include a collection of short stories, Drifters, novels, Mates, The Discus Throwers and The Variety Artistes, and a childhood autobiography, Forties' Child, also published by Serpent's Tail. Tom Wakefield died in 1997.
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?What disarmingly polished scenes they are... Tom Wakefield is one of our most engaging of novelists? Valentine Cunningham, TLS ?This is a tender and origninal recollection of the way a child puts the amazing world together, by a writer with a gift for leaving raw things raw? Guardian
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date1852
- ISBN 10 1852421169
- ISBN 13 9781852421168
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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