
Twenty years ago Liam Corwen & Dee Dee Ahmed were on the cusp of a better future Liam as a promising footballer & Dee Dee as a singer in a girl band Now they're both eking out an existence back in their home town As the old steelworks rust & the local football club limps towards relegation & liquidation Dee Dee recalls the tragic events that changed their lives Liam thinks back to the great players of the past & wonders could redemption greatness even still wait for them here among the abandoned cranes & docks & housing estates? Evoking the landscape & myth of old forgotten England Iron Towns is a story of our dreams of youth football & industrial progress
- & what happens when those dreams recede into the past New paperback edition featuring Cartwright's acclaimed essay on the EU referendum