✦ LIBER ✦

The Co-Op's Got Bananas! A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

✍ Scribed by Davies, Hunter

Book ID: 109904498
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Tongue: English
Weight: 4 MB
Series: Autobiography 1
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781471153402

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A poignant and very personal childhood memoir of growing up in Cumbria during the Second World War and into the 1950s, from columnist Hunter Davies
Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend, and being captivated by the latest escapade of Dick Barton on the radio.
Chocolate might be scarce, and bananas would be a pipe dream, but you could still have fun. In an excellent social memoir from one of the UK's premier columnists over the past five decades, Hunter Davies captures this period beautifully. His memoir of growing up in post-war North of England from 1945 onwards, amid the immense damage wrought by the Second World War, and the dreariness of life on...

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

The Education of a Traitor: A Memoir of Growing Up in Cold War Russia

✍ Grobman, Svetlana 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Musings Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

Svetlana (Sveta) Grobman grew up in a communal apartment in Moscow, Russia, during the Cold War with her mother, father and younger sister. From a very young age, she found herself living in two contradictory worlds: the private world of a Jewish family struggling to live a decent life in a society

The Education of a Traitor: A Memoir of

The Education of a Traitor: A Memoir of Growing Up in Cold War Russia

📂 Standards 📅 2015 🏛 Musings Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 486 KB

Women and the Political Process in the U

Women and the Political Process in the United States || Schooling the Daughters of Marianne: Textbooks and the Socialization of Girls in Modern French Primary Schoolsby Linda L. Clark;Schools for the Boys? Co-Education Reassessedby Pat Mahony;One Foot on the Ladder: Origins and Outcomes of Girls' Secondary Schooling in South Australiaby Alison MacKinnon;Daughters of the State: A Social Portrait of the First Reform School for Girls in North America, 1856-1905by Barbara M. Brenzel;Growing up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fictionby Barbara A. White

✍ Review by: Carolyn C. Lougee 📂 Article 📅 1987 🏛 University of Chicago Press 🌐 English ⚖ 478 KB

Memoirs of the Geological Suvey of India

Memoirs of the Geological Suvey of India. Palæontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the Progress of the Geological Survey of India. Published by order of His Excellency the Governor-General of India in Council. Series x. Indian Tertiary and Post-Tertiary Vertebrata .—Vol. III. Part 1. Additional Siwalik Perissodactyla and Proboscidia , with 5 plates and 6 woodcuts. Part 2. Siwalik and Narbada Bundont Suina , with 7 plates and 1 woodcut. Part 3. Rodents and new Ruminants from the Siwaliks, and Synopsis of Mammalia , with 1 plate and 8 woodcuts. Part 4. Siwalik Birds , with 2 plates. Part 5. Mastodon Teeth from Perim Island , with 2 plates. By R. Lydekker, B.A., F.G.S., F.Z.S. 4to. Calcutta: Geological Survey Office. London: Trübner & Co. 1884

📂 Article 📅 1885 🏛 Taylor and Francis Group 🌐 English ⚖ 462 KB