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Please, Mister Postman (Paperback)
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Please, Mister Postman (Paperback)
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List price R336
Loot Price R274
Discovery Miles 2 740
You Save R62 (18%)
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In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in
Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to
start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently
notorious among the locals, in fact came as a blessed relief after
the tensions of Notting Hill, and the local community welcomed them
with open arms. Alan had become a postman the previous year, and in
order to support his growing family took on every bit of overtime
he could, often working twelve-hour shifts six days a week. It was
hard work, but not without its compensations - the crafty fag
snatched in a country lane, the farmer's wife offering a hearty
breakfast and even the mysterious lady on Glebe Road who appeared
daily, topless, at her window as the postman passed by... Please,
Mister Postman paints a vivid picture of England in the 1970s,
where no celebration was complete without a Party Seven of Watney's
Red Barrel, smoking was the norm rather than the exception, and
Sunday lunchtime was about beer, bingo and cribbage. But as Alan's
life appears to be settling down and his career in the Union of
Postal Workers begins to take off, his close-knit family is struck
once again by tragedy... Moving, hilarious and unforgettable,
Please, Mister Postman is another astonishing book from the
award-winning author of This Boy.
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