Re-creates a lost industrial landscape which was an important part of industrial Britain and which existed within living memory but has now completely disappeared Wonderful recall of the details of childhood - people, landscapes, food, games, railways, etc Many nominations in newspaper 'Books of the Year' Charmingly illustrated with 18 pen-and-wash drawings by the author 'This warm and totally delightful memoir' Antonia Fraser, Evening Standard 'The sketches are charmingly done...His own piety has not destroyed his sense of humour, for this is a funny book as well as a touching one' Nicholas B
Paul Johnson, who was born in 1928 and educated at Stonyhurst and Magdalen College, Oxford, edited the New Statesman magazine in the 1960s and has written over forty books. A contributor to newspapers all over the world, he lives in London and Somerset.
Well written, full of affectionate vignettes of working and family life, it conjures up a very particular place in a rather captivating way. - DAILY EXPRESSAn enchanting account of a vanished landscape. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHunashamedly nostalgic... a sequence of sharp and vivid snapshots of the people, places and events that shaped his imagination. - SUNDAY TIMES
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