by KittyAldridge (Author)
When Maggie is thirteen she goes to live with her grandfather, Pop, in Sutton Coldfield. Pop knows everything - he's quiz champion of the Plough and Harrow and his ambition is to appear on Sale of the Century. Maggie knows about the great comedians - Max Wall, Ken Dodd, Tommy Cooper, Eric and Ernie - about country music, and about how her mother died. Pop sings with the poetry of the suburbs and aches with the poignancy of adolescence. Kitty Aldridge has a wonderfully distinctive voice and a deliciously sharp eye for the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Published: 04 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 0224062093
ISBN 13: 9780224062091
Book Overview: A brilliant first novel set in the 1970s.