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Where Shall We Run To? - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Where Shall We Run To? - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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List price R453
Loot Price R370
Discovery Miles 3 700
You Save R83 (18%)
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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A GUARDIAN 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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