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Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. Not in respect of the poverty which was shared with many of those living in the slums of post-war Britain but in its transition from two-parent family to single mother and then to no parents at all...This is essentially the story of two incredible women: Alan's mother Lily who battled against poor health poverty domestic violence and loneliness to try to ensure a better life for her children; and his sister Linda who had to assume an enormous amount of responsibility at a very young age and who fought to keep the family together and out of care when she herself was still only a child. Played out against the background of a vanishing community living in condemned
housing the story moves from post-war austerity in pre-gentrified Notting Hill through the race riots school on the Kings Road Chelsea in the Swinging 60s to the rock-and-roll years making a record in Denmark Street and becoming a husband and father whilst still in his teens. This Boy is one man's story but it is also a story of England and the West London slums which are so hard to imagine in the capital today. No matter how harsh the details Alan Johnson writes with a spirit of generous acceptance of humour and openness which makes his book anything but a grim catalogue of miseries.
housing the story moves from post-war austerity in pre-gentrified Notting Hill through the race riots school on the Kings Road Chelsea in the Swinging 60s to the rock-and-roll years making a record in Denmark Street and becoming a husband and father whilst still in his teens. This Boy is one man's story but it is also a story of England and the West London slums which are so hard to imagine in the capital today. No matter how harsh the details Alan Johnson writes with a spirit of generous acceptance of humour and openness which makes his book anything but a grim catalogue of miseries.
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