In this account of his childhood, Robert Edric writes of his upbringing in working-class Sheffield throughout the ’60s and early ’70s with both compassion and unflinching honesty. Based wholly on Edric’s own memories and long-repeated family tales, this memoir reveals the small, often claustrophobic and inward-looking world which both formed him as a child and afterwards helped inform him as a writer. Chief among these interwoven recollections are the ordinary, everyday stories and memories of the day to day life of his own family and of the relatives and neighbours around him; of his education as a grammar school boy of that time; and, most particularly, of the lives of his parents, whose own childhoods during the Second World War and afterwards formed by far the most influential part of that upbringing.

Author Robert Edric Published by Swift Press ISBN 9781800750814 EAN 9781800750814 Bic Code Cover Hardback