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"It was not until he was dead and I was forty that I realised my father was once in Holy Orders," Roy Hattersley reveals, setting the tone in the opening pages of his childhood memoir. A somewhat precocious only child, Roy grew up surrounded by protective adults, equally determined to expose him to books and to shield him from germs - second-hand books were decontaminated by a sharp session in the oven. A ten-year feud with the next door neighbours; unwavering devotion to Sheffield Wednesday; the hardships of the 1930s and the Blitz; the eleven-plus examination and Grammar School - all the pleasures and pangs of northern working-class boyhood are relived.
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Lord Hattersley of Sparkbrook was a Labour MP for over thirty years, and served in each of Harold Wilson's governments as well as Jim Callaghan's Cabinet before becoming deputy leader of the Labour Party in 1983. He is now an award-winning journalist and author.
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His moving memoir...explains the idealism that makes him tick. * THE TIMES * A lovely and well-written read. * NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST * A narrator who has the common touch . . . This gift for re-creating his childhood makes Mr Hattersley the Beryl Bainbridge of English politics * OBSERVER * Roy Hattersley's warm, entertaining account of his early years as a happy, much cherished child is a pleasure to read... An engaging, yet also persuasive read. * YOUNG MINDS MAGAZINE *
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- PublisherPan Books
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0330313940
- ISBN 13 9780330313940
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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