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I was sick of Gordon Barraclough. Sick of his bullying. And I was sick of him being a good footballer. 'Listen, Barraclough. My uncle is Bobby Charlton.' 'You're a liar.' I was. 'I'm not. Cross my heart and hope to die.' I spat on my hand. If I'd dropped down dead on the spot I wouldn't have been surprised. 'Funny and moving.... a rare gift.' Guardian
Prequel to The Fib and other stories, this is a collection of nine funny and moving stories, featuring a boy growing up in a northern town in the 1950s and entering a grammar school. His problems, dilemmas, relationships and comic disasters are related.
Presents an atmospheric view of growing up in the 1950s. The tales in this title deal with a young boy's small world, and its big implications.
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The coach started to move off. I felt frightened. All these weeks, looking forward to it, and now I did'nt want to go. Please, Mum, let me go home. She was running alongside, waving her hanky and crying... He'd nagged his mother for weeks to let him go on the school exchange, swapping his home in the backstreets of a northern town for a posh house in London. With a proper family. With a dad. But now it was all going wrong...
George Layton’s stories evoke a nostalgic, atmospheric view of growing up in the 1950s. From the funny and faintly ridiculous to the terribly tragic, every tale brings a young boy’s small world, and its big implications, to life.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
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