A bestseller in England and celebrated as one of the great memoirs
in many years, The Road to Nab End is a marvelously evocative
account of growing up poor in a British mill town. From William
Woodruff's birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill)
until he ran away to London at the age of sixteen, he lived in the
heart of Blackburn's weaving community in the north of England. But
after Lancashire's supremacy in cotton textiles ended with the
crash of 1920, his father was thrown out of work. From then on,
Billy and his family faced a life blighted by extreme poverty. For
the ordinary families of Lancashire, unemployment was an
ever-present fear: "If you worked you ate. If there was no work you
went hungry." Billy's boyhood was not all misery. Working-class
pride and culture made for tight family and neighborhood bonds and
added savor to the smallest pleasures in life. Mr. Woodruff writes
with an understated lyricism and an eye for telling details that
effortlessly pulls us into another time and place.
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