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Racing the Wind: A Cumbrian Childhood
Racing the Wind: A Cumbrian Childhood
Patricia Nolan
£12.00
This powerful and beautifully-written account is the memoir of Patricia Nolan who lived in a tiny community in Cumbria and it captures the end of an era in the 1950s.
'When the first organ-transplant was taking place, when computers were starting to revolutionise our lives and television was arriving in the sitting-rooms of Britain, in my house we were still dipping buckets into a stream to make a cup of tea and going to bed by candlelight, ' she writes. The tale covers three years of the author's life, made particularly vivid by a traumatic event which opens the book, but which goes on to depict a poor but close rural community with its village school, its annual country show, its Christmas celebrations and its local characters - all set against the dramatic back-drop of Scafell and the surrounding hills and moors on which she and her friends ran free.
Publisher :
Merlin Unwin Books
Published :
September 2019
Pages :
143p
Format :
Hardback; 223 x 143mm
Illustrations :
Black and white photographs throughout
ISBN :
9781910723975
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