A touching memoir of a Jewish-English childhood in 1940s East End London.

Full of striking characters and odd encounters, this is an evocative picture of a lost London and a vanished culture, but it is also the story of an imaginative boy discovering his own path through books and films and school - away from Mile End into the new freedoms of the literary life.

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John Gross is theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph. His previous books include The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters and the widely acclaimed Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend. He lives in London, several miles from the East End.

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