You Can See The Angel's Bum, Miss Worswick!

Harding, Mike

ISBN 10: 0860513467 / ISBN 13: 9780860513469

Published by Robson, 1985

About this Item

3rd impression. 144pp, priceclipped dustjacket by David Butler is otherwise complete. Drawings by Banx. A comic 'autobiography', set in Crumpsall-on-Irk near Manchester.

Seller Inventory # 3792

Bibliographic Details

• Title: You Can See The Angel's Bum, Miss Worswick!
• Publisher: Robson
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0860513467
• ISBN 13: 9780860513469
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Banx
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Autobiography
  • Literature A - F

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Synopsis

Based – very loosely – on the truth, this uproarious first volume of Mike Harding’s projected autobiographical trilogy covers his earliest years. He claims he passed them in the company of a grandmother who spent much of her time lying under trolley buses or accusing piano tuners of being Adolf Hitler, and of a grandfather who beleived that the world is shaped like a banana!

The story opens in 1944, in the picturesque fishing village of Crumpsall-on-Irk, Manchester. The Second World War is nearing its final stages, peace and a brave new world are said to be just over the horizon – but the denizens of the Harding household know better than to listen to rumour, and live on in their air raid shelter. Eventually our authour emerges, to be attacked by a plasticine snake at primary school; to join the Wolf Cubs – only to be drummed out after his unsucessful coup against Akela, and at last, to reach puberty. (Here he discovers that the stork doesbring babies – but only if…)