A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living
writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. 'The war
went. We sang in the playground, "Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb's
boom, and two big explosions." David's father came back from Burma
and didn't eat rice. Twiggy taught by reciting "The Pied Piper of
Hamelin", "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and the thirteen times
table. Twiggy was fat and short and he shouted, and his neck was as
wide as his head. He was a bully, though he didn't take any notice
of me.' In Where Shall We Run To?, Alan Garner remembers his early
childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge: life at the
village school as 'a sissy and a mardy-arse'; pushing his friend
Harold into a clump of nettles to test the truth of dock leaves;
his father joining the army to guard the family against Hitler; the
coming of the Yanks, with their comics and sweets and chewing gum.
From one of our greatest living writers, it is a remarkable and
evocative memoir of a vanished England.
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