Racing the Wind: A Cumbrian Childhood

di Patricia Nolan (Autore)

Merlin Unwin Books, 2019

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.

• Autore: Patricia Nolan
• Editore: Merlin Unwin Books
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 144 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• Peso: 366 gr.
• EAN: 9781910723975

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