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Springfield Road is a journey into childhood in the late 1970s, a time of halfpenny sweets, fish and chips in newspaper, scrumping apples and foraging for conkers. Set in the dawn of Thatcher's Britain, it's a salute to every curly-top, scabby knee'd, mixed-up, half-crazy kid with NHS glasses, free school dinners and hand-me- downs, as told by the daughter of an Irish jazz musician and a Jamaican go-go dancer.
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A poetic and touching memoir of childhood in the seventies.
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Salena Godden is a writer, poet and broadcaster who has been described as 'the doyenne of the spoken word scene' (Ian McMillan, BBC Radio 3's The Verb); 'the Mae West madam of the salon' (the Sunday Times) and as 'everything the Daily Mail is terrified of' (Kerrang! magazine). To mark twenty years of poetry and performance, a new collection Fishing In The Aftermath – Poems 1994-2014 will be published with Burning Eye Books in the summer of 2014. Her most recent documentary for BBC R4 was Try a Little Tenderness: The Lost Legacy of Little Miss Cornshucks, which aired to rave reviews.
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- EditoreUnbound
- Data di pubblicazione2014
- ISBN 10 1783520558
- ISBN 13 9781783520558
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine272
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