- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Ebury Press (6 Feb 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0091886678
- ISBN-13: 978-0091886677
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 401,787 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A humorous nostalgic memoir of an utterly normal 1970s childhood and adolescence. Collins' parents never split up, no-one abused him, he got on well with his brother and sister and none of his friends drowned in a canal!
Sue Morgan, Ottakar's
'This is a highly amusing, most welcome contrast to the glut of misery-laden, dysfunctional childhood memoirs that have emerged in recent years.'
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In a publishing world swamped with terrible stories of child abuse, this book is as refreshing as a rain shower on a hot day.
At last the other side of the coin can be shown. Not everyone suffered abuse as children and Andrew and I are two of them.
I am very slightly older than him, but everything he wrote resonated in my memory and he even reminded me of things I'd forgotten - thank you Andrew!
In fact, many of his memories matched my own so closely that I had to check I'd never had a brother and had never lived in Northampton ...
If you want to wallow in an age that had no style but plenty of soul, this is an excellent book. Bits of it lagged a bit, but the majority is fun, fresh, interesting and for those of us in our early 40's and who have survived a thoroughly nice childhood, essential nostalgia reading.
At last the other side of the coin can be shown. Not everyone suffered abuse as children and Andrew and I are two of them.
I am very slightly older than him, but everything he wrote resonated in my memory and he even reminded me of things I'd forgotten - thank you Andrew!
In fact, many of his memories matched my own so closely that I had to check I'd never had a brother and had never lived in Northampton ...
If you want to wallow in an age that had no style but plenty of soul, this is an excellent book. Bits of it lagged a bit, but the majority is fun, fresh, interesting and for those of us in our early 40's and who have survived a thoroughly nice childhood, essential nostalgia reading.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Until I actually bought this book I did not know that Andrew was born the same year as me 1965. From then on I was hooked. It seemed that so many similarties were coming up in his life to mine. It was a funny, sentimental stroll down memory lane. The talk of Welfare Orange bought back memories (and the taste). An easy to read and enjoyable book. I look forward to reading his next instalment - well done Andrew!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's taken me 6 years to write something about this book, i first saw it on the shelf in WHSmith at Manchester Airport as i was waiting to fly to Greece in 2004 and i bought it for the purpose of doing absolutely nothing by the pool for 2 weeks... i read it in 2 days, what a fantastic book, a lovely trundle back to the 70's, jammy dodgers, magpie, the double-deckers and robinson crusoe, washed down by a pint of flashing blade. Andrew paints a picture of innocence without the sick-bucket, full of humour and pre-teen angst.. i could relate to every page and often laughed out loud whilst baking in the hot sun... i was born in 1965 and this was like reading the first 15 or so years of my life!.BRILLIANT!.
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nostalgia or ljst?
I bought this book with expections of stirred memoiries but all i got was a seris of lists and self indulgent footnotes l find iextremley hard to read with very little content... Read more
Published 1 month ago by baz1
Didnt go right enough.
A holiday read picked because I've enjoyed the authors broadcasting on the radio and Podcasts.
However the book is sections of his teenage years diary but the diary of... Read more
However the book is sections of his teenage years diary but the diary of... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Lord Of All He Surveys
a let down
I was really looking forward to reading this been born 1965 the same as Andrew. I thought it would be like A tent a bucket and me. It sounded like a trip back to my childhood. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mrs. H. E. Birch
a bit boring
I was born the same year as this writer,i can remember some of the TV programmes he talks about,but the endless talking about friends and relations was quite boring,also the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by M. Stretford
70's childhood was great
I am only a few years older than andrew, so much of what he wrote about found a parralel in my own childhood. Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2009 by Darryl Green
Growing up dull, smug and suburban in the 70s
I quite liked the premise of this book - a riposte by someone who'd had a normal, happy childhood to the ranks of misery lit tomes detailing the horrors of traumatic childhoods. Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2009 by Not quite rabid
YOU COULD FALL ASLEEP WHILE ANDREW COLLINS SEARCHES BACK THROUGH HIS...
Where did it all go right....? Good question andrew collins, but unfortunately - no-one cares.
Andrew`s family once appeared on `telly addicts` and he spends pages telling us... Read more
Andrew`s family once appeared on `telly addicts` and he spends pages telling us... Read more
Published on 23 May 2008 by Leeds lass
I can't review this one objectively...
,,,because I was born in the same town just 3 years later. Thus I devoured it and passed it on to my brother who found it even more evocative. Read more
Published on 13 May 2008 by Martin Tobutt
A Normal Book for Normal People
I grew up in the Seventies not a million miles from Northampton and this book rang a lot of bells for me in many ways. Read more
Published on 28 April 2008 by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley
OK...But An Overdose of Nostalgic Self-Indulgence
Not a book I would have purchased myself, but I received it as an unexpected Christmas present. Yes, I grew up in the 60s and 70s, though three years Andrew's elder. Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2007 by ESP
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