This is a vivid and ultimately uplifting account of the author's childhood in northern England. Somehow she, her sister and half sister learn to cope in a confusing world in which their widowed mother always falls for men who swing from passionate love to extreme violence. You might think this is just another account of a poverty stricken childhood but what comes across is how children can grow and survive even in awful conditions.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 4 July 2000 ) |
