- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New impression edition (April 1969)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140017518
- ISBN-13: 978-0140017519
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.2 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 192,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The third of Monica Dickens'' autobiographica l books describes her time as cub reporter on the Downingham Post, a long established small-town paper with a steady cir culation and not much sympathy with the innovations of its j unior reporter. '
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I first read this as a teenager many moons ago. My ancient battered Oxfam copy is a 1951 edition so naturally its incredibly dated. Its not just the story of a young girl struggling as a cub reporter on a provincial newspaper; its also the very amusing life she leads in her grotty boarding house and the crazy characters she encounters there. Like everything by Monica Dickens its very funny, though "One Pair of Hands" and "One Pair of Feet" are her funniest books.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Having recently read and thoroughly enjoyed One Pair of Hands by the same author, I ferreted out some more of her books. In this one, the author has, for reasons of her own, become a journalist on a provincial newspaper - I guess in about the early 1950s from the context of the book. Like One Pair of Hands, she finds herself in all sorts of odd predicaments - I admire her courage in diving feet-first into situations I would hate to find myself in! The team at the local newspaper seem a misfit bunch; and Ms Dickens' character portraits are very insightful; as is her writing of her life in the small town. Her living situation sounds horrendous to me, but provides the reader with plenty of wry humour as she goes about her daily life and finds the funny side of every situation. I will definitely be reading more of her books - laugh out loud stuff, telling of days gone by.
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Monica Dickens states that she never set out specifically to gather material for books when she worked at various jobs in the years surrounding the Second World War, but her experiences make fascinating reading. This book sees the author working in the offices of a local newspaper and brings to life in an amazingly vivid way the life and spirit of post-war England. Dickens' character portraits are so true-to-life that you feel you actually know the people, while her unsentimental picture of the (as we see them now) hardships of life is a valuable historical record. Binding it all together is the author's keen eye for observation, dry understated wit and humour, and an enviable ability to tell a story against herself. The picture she paints of herself as a bumbling second-rate reporter, unable to string together a coherent paragraph about the most mundane of subjects, is quite at odds with her actual facility to write engaging, captivating prose. If you enjoy the sort of stories told by James Herriot and his ilk, you will love this book and the others in the series.
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