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All Together Now? - One Man's Walk in Search of a Lost England (Paperback, Main)
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All Together Now? - One Man's Walk in Search of a Lost England (Paperback, Main)
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Discovery Miles 2 930
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'This important, disturbing and frequently heartbreaking book
should be read by every politician in Westminster.' Adrian Tempany,
Observer 'In a few weeks' time, it would be thirty-five years to
the day since those men and women had walked 340 miles to try to
save their communities and their culture, and thirty-five years
since I had turned down Pete's invitation to join them. I called
work and booked some time off. Then I bought a one-way train ticket
to Liverpool.' In 1981, Mike Carter's dad, Pete, organised the
People's March for Jobs, which saw 300 people walk from Liverpool
to London to protest as the Thatcher government's policies
devastated industrial Britain and sent unemployment skyrocketing.
Just before the 2016 EU referendum, Mike set off to walk the same
route in a quest to better understand his dad and his country. As
he walked, Mike found many echoes of the early eighties: a working
class overlooked and ignored by Westminster politicans; communities
hollowed out but fiercely resistant; anger and despair co-existing
with hope and determination for change. And he also found that he
and Pete shared more in common than he might have thought. All
Together Now? maps the intricate, overlapping path of one man's
journey and that of an entire country. It is a book about
belonging, about whether to stay or go, and about the need to write
new stories for our communities and ourselves.
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