by Brian Thompson (Author)
Mum and Dad - Squibs and Bert - were a complete mystery to Brian Thompson as he grew up in Cambridge and London during the 1940s. His mother danced with the Yanks all night and slept under a fake fur coat all day, and when his father bothered to come home he resolutely discouraged Brian in everything. Whilst other children were evacuated out of the big cities, Brian found himself travelling into London, and spent much of the war with an eccentric crowd of ribald relations.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 258
Edition: Main
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 14 Sep 2006
ISBN 10: 1843544989
ISBN 13: 9781843544982
Prizes: Winner of PEN/Ackerley Prize 2007.
A a beautifully judged account of an era usually doused in generalised sentiment -- Daily Telegraph
Beautifully written and enormously entertaining -- The Scotsman
Funny and terrifying in turns -- The Sunday Times
One of the funniest - and darkest - war memoirs you'll ever read... a spellbinding story. -- Daily Mail
The prefect antidote to the 'misery memior'.
-- The Judges, Costa Book Award 2006 for Biography