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Girls, guitars and motorcycles - growing up in the sticks in the 1970s
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Tim Bradford is growing up in a small town in Lincolnshire in the 1970s. Market Rasen is not the most exciting place, but to his teenage mind it was the centre of the universe. Tim is at that in-between phase between childhood and adolescence, where you are trying to be grown up and get your first snogs whilst at the same time still playing with airfix models and making dens.
Tim takes us through his first crushes, falling in love with the local beauty queen and an elusive Gallic beauty on a French exchange. His first attempts at getting drunk and trying to impress girls, forming bands which churned out endless numbers of rubbish songs and trying to avoid deckings by the local hards. Tim and his equally hapless friends are gradually working towards breaking free of their childhoods and moving away from their roots. Life in this small town was a rollercoaster of mundane happenings. Small Town paints a portrait of the energy and melancholy at the heart of our generation, the inability to live for now and the feeling that something better is just around the corner. Too young (just) to be baby boomers and too English and uncool to call itself Generation X. It's a universal tale about dreams, ambitions, brass bands, cubs, rugby songs, football stickers, tractors, young love and valve amplifiers connected up to cheap distortion pedals, set at a time of political change and pudding basin hair.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I do think that this is the best book Tim has written so far. However, I have to say that my review might be thought to be biased as I am his mother. Nevertheless, he has had reviews in the local papers which were very complimentary and we also heard an interview of him on "Loose Ends" on 24th April which came over very well. I am sure that not only local folks will relate to the book but also many of the same generation who probably experienced similar adolescent years.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is fantastic - a cross between Cider with Rosie and The Clash Songbook. It has a lovely tone throughout: nostalgic enough that you can smell the Humbrol paint and glue being used in the Airfix models but too downright hilarious to ever be mawkish. The illustrations are a constant joy and some of the set pieces (including the exchange trip to France, doing a punk gig for the local cub troop) are brilliant and I literally laughed till I cried. Only downside was reaching the end and wondering what happened next. Hopefully a sequel in the offing?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Excellent book, as was the hidden river book too. I also moved out of Raynes Park (Langham Court) in 1996. What a dump that was.
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