Heads and Straights: The Circle Line (Penguin Underground Lines)
Heads and Straights Written by the bestselling author of The Secret Life of France, this book offers an autobiographical tale of bohemians, punk, the King's Road in the 1970s and family. It is part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground. Full description
Heads and Straights Written by the bestselling author of The Secret Life of France, this book offers an autobiographical tale of bohemians, punk, the King's Road in the 1970s and family. It is part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground. Full description
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781846146398 (1846146399)
ASIN: 1846146399
Publish date: 2013-03-07
Publisher: Particular Books
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
eccentric doesn't begin to describe the author's family and their stories about how they grew up. it was highly entertaining, funny and, at times, even heart-warming. however i didn't fall in love with it and i don't see myself re-reading it any time soon.
Lucy Wadham offers here a rich and spicy recollection of her life among her parents, colorful sisters, eccentric grandmother, and uncles in London during the 1970s and 1980s. One of the passages that I delighted in reading was the following:“Eileen’s [the author’s maternal grandmother, who was a fre...
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