Pop

by KittyAldridge (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $49.44

  During the heatwave of 1975, Maggie, thirteen, goes to live with her grandfather, Pop, in Sutton Coldfield. Pops mission is to know everything: the annual Fox and Dogs pub quiz is looming. Maggie doesn't know everything, but she does know the great comedians, about country music, and how her mother died.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.48

  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.