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Growing Up

Michael Bowles

Editorial: Austin Macauley Publishers

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Our hero was born on 24th March 1940, which in that year was Easter Sunday, in the Bird in Hand pub in the village of Stoulton, 5 miles south of Worcester. There was a lot going on in 1940 of which he was totally unaware: the Dunkirk evacuation, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, for starters. On a lesser level perhaps was the suicide of Virginia Woolf. Meanwhile, over in New York, Duke Ellington was composing and recording masterpieces like Take the A Train, Chelsea Bridge and Sepia Panorama.

What follows is our hero's misadventures in the countryside around the hamlet of Sneachill in rural Worcestershire recounted in this saga.
Disponible desde: 24/05/2024.
Longitud de impresión: 122 páginas.

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