Christopher Fowler's memoir captures life in suburban London as it has rarely been seen: through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library & the cinema devouring novels comics cereal packets
- anything that might reveal a story. Caught between an ever-sensible but exhausted mother & a DIY-obsessed father fighting his own demons Christopher takes refuge in words. His parents try to understand their son's peculiar obsessions but fast lose patience with him
- & each other. The war of nerves escalates to include every member of the Fowler family & something has to give but does it mean that a boy must always give up his dreams for the tough lessons of real life? Beautifully written this rich & astute evocation of a time & a place recalls a childhood at once entertainingly eccentric & endearingly ordinary.

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It's Belfast 1975. The city lies under the dark cloud of the Troubles & hatred fills the air like smoke. But Tony Macaulay has just turned twelve & he's got a new job. He's going to be a paperboy. & come rain or shine
- or bombs & mortar
- he will deliver... Paperboy lives in Upper Shankill Belfast in the heart of the conflict between Loyalists & Republicans. Bombings are on the evening news rubble lies where buildings once stood & rumours spread like wildfire about the IRA & the UDA. But Paperboy lives in a world of Doctor Who Top of the Pops & fish suppers. His battles are fought with all the passion of Ireland's opposing sides
- but against acne the dentist & the 'wee hoods' who rob his paper money. On his rounds he hums songs by the Bay City Rollers dreams about outer space & dreams even more about the beautiful Sharon Burgess. In this touching funny & nostalgic memoir Tony Macaulay recounts his days growing up in Belfast during the Troubles the harrowing years which saw neighbour fighting neighbour & brother fighting brother. But in the midst of all this turmoil Paperboy a scrappy upstart with a wicked sense of humour & sky-high dreams dutifully goes about his paper round. He is a good paperboy so he is. Paperboy proves that happiness can be found even in the darkest of times; it is a story that will charm your socks off make you laugh out loud & brings to life the culture stories & colourful characters of a very different
- but very familiar
- time.




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