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This Boy
  • ISBN: 9780552167017
  • Pages: 318
  • Publisher: Corgi
  • Binding: Paperback

This Boy

Alan Johnson
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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.

This is 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.

This Boy is one man’s story, but it is also the story of England and the West London slums which are 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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