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The Road To Nab End: a Lancashire Childhood

by William Woodruff

ISBN13: 9780349115214
ISBN10: 0349115214
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The highly acclaimed autobiography of William Woodruff, who grew up in Blackburn in a working-class family in the 1920s and '30s, has sold 18,000 copies for Eland Press. Now published under the Abacus imprint, it will receive colour advertising in the "Times, Telegraph" and "Bookseller". "The book is a masterpiece" "The Independent".

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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. This autobiography reveals his tough childhood in 1920s' Blackburn.

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: lovingreader, July 12, 2007 (view all comments by lovingreader)
I found The Road to Nab End in a small bookstore in York, and read it cover to cover in the next couple of days. This is a very sense-based account of growing up in a depression-era mill town in northern England. The author describes the bitter tang of coal smoke in the air, the noisy warmth of family life in a small cottage, what goes into Lancashire hotpot, the joys of pigeon-racing, and holidays at Blackpool. I especially liked how multi-dimensional his descriptions were; the account is neither sugar-coated nor just a sob story. Plus, he has a great dog!
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ISBN:: 9780349115214
Subtitle:: (an extraordinary Northern chil dhood )
Author:: WOODRUFF, WILLIAM
Publisher:: Libri
Location:: London
Subject:: Cotton manufacture
Subject:: Working class families
Subject:: Blackburn
Edition Description:: NEW ED
Series Volume:: RP-588
Publication Date:: 20020103
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Pages:: 407 p.
Dimensions:: 198 x 126 in.

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