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William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn -- a treat was sheep's head or cow heel soup -- and got worse when his father lost his job when the cotton industry started its terminal decline. Woodruff had to find his childhood fun in the little free time he had available between his delivery job and school, but he never writes self-pityingly, leaving the reader to shed the tears on his behalf. At ten his mother takes him on his one and only holiday -- to Blackpool. He never wonders where they get the money to do so, only where she disappears to with strange men in the afternoons, before taking him to the funfair, pockets jingling an hour or two later. NAB END is certainly not all grime and gloom however, there's a cast of great minor characters from an unfrocked vicar to William's indomitable grandmother Bridget who lend some colour and humour -- and all against the strongly rendered social backdrop of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Extraordinarily well written and vividly told, his book is rich in characters, facts, atmosphere, and indomitable spirit. (Eric Hobsbawm, GUARDIAN)

The book is a masterpiece (INDEPENDENT)

Impossible to put down (Alan Bullock, TLS)

A wonderful evocation of a vanished age. (MAIL ON SUNDAY)

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* A Lancashire ANGELA'S ASHES, widely praised and reviewed. A fabulous portrait of working class life of the period.

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  • PublisherLittle, Brown
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0316861006
  • ISBN 13 9780316861007
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages416

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