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A Yorkshire Boyhood (Paperback)
$14.20 - Save $1.58 (10%) - RRP $15.78 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for A Yorkshire BoyhoodRoy Hattersley's childhood memoir, with a new introduction and epilogue. Roy discovers that his parents weren't married and re-visits the scene of his childhood.
Full description- Publisher: Abacus
- Published: 04 December 2003
- Format: Paperback 224 pages
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- Categories: Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military
- ISBN 13: 9780349116556 ISBN 10: 0349116555
- Sales rank: 557,144
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Full description for A Yorkshire Boyhood
'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.
