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Amazon.com review:
Mum and Dad - Squibs and Bert - were a complete mystery to Brian Thompson as he grew up in Cambridge and London during the 1940s. His mother danced with the Yanks all night and slept under a fake fur coat all day, and when his father bothered to come home he resolutely discouraged Brian in everything. Whilst other children were evacuated out of the big cities, Brian found himself travelling into London, and spent much of the war with an eccentric crowd of ribald relations.
'A wonderful book that brings vividly to life one of the oddest childhoods I've ever read about.' Michael Frayn
'Flawless...genius... this book is evidence of children's capacity not only to survive and thrive, but also to look back and laugh.'
Peter Stanford, Independent On Sunday
'Funny and terrifying in turns... a magnificent study of malevolence, of a husband and wife for whom hatred is more potent than love.' Paul Bailey, Sunday Times
'Wildly funny... a knee-high view of the strange adult world.' Francis Wheen'
Amazon.com review:
Mum and Dad - Squibs and Bert - were a complete mystery to Brian Thompson as he grew up in Cambridge and London during the 1940s. His mother danced with the Yanks all night and slept under a fake fur coat all day, and when his father bothered to come home he resolutely discouraged Brian in everything. Whilst other children were evacuated out of the big cities, Brian found himself travelling into London, and spent much of the war with an eccentric crowd of ribald relations.
'A wonderful book that brings vividly to life one of the oddest childhoods I've ever read about.' Michael Frayn
'Flawless...genius... this book is evidence of children's capacity not only to survive and thrive, but also to look back and laugh.'
Peter Stanford, Independent On Sunday
'Funny and terrifying in turns... a magnificent study of malevolence, of a husband and wife for whom hatred is more potent than love.' Paul Bailey, Sunday Times
'Wildly funny... a knee-high view of the strange adult world.' Francis Wheen'
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