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Overview'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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roy HattersleyPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group Imprint: Abacus Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 12.60cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.900kg ISBN: 9780349116556ISBN 10: 0349116555 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 04 December 2003 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews'A special sort of charm' Blake Morrison 'Moving, funny, charming and enormously readable' LISTENER 'A narrator who has the common touch ... This gift for re-creating his childhood makes Mr Hattersley the Beryl Bainbridge of English politics' OBSERVER Author InformationLord Hattersley of Sparkbrook was a Labour MP for over thirty years, and served in each of Harold Wilson's governments as well as Jim Callaghan's Cabinet before becoming deputy leader of the Labour Party in 1983. He is now an award-winning journalist and author. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |