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Yesterday's Child: A Coventry Childhood in Peace and War [Paperback]

Carl Chinn (Foreword), Pat Watson (Author)
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Set in 1930s Coventry and continuing through the Blitz, Yesterday's Child is a novel of working-class childhood, told through the eyes of the main character. Brought up by her hypochondriac mother and doughty Aunt Madge, with her bullying father a menacing figure in the background, Patty meets friends, neighbours and strangers in a series of encounters that are in turn comical, eerie and alarming. Though this is a child's story, it is not a story for children, and the reader is left with an enjoyable sense of unease. Backgrounds include a midnight flit, a country house children's party, a seedy secondhand shop with an arsonist parrot, coronation celebrations, a wealthy old recluse in a decaying mansion, a stone-deaf piano teacher who once saw an angel, a seaside holiday with a drag queen among the pierrots, a dangerous escape from the Blitz, a war-time romance, and a convenient bereavement.

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