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• Format: Large print book - Hardback
• Released: 2007
• Publisher: Chivers Press
• ISBN: 9781405648448
• Category: Large Print Books Non-fiction
• Availability: Available for immediate dispatch
• Our Price: £18.99
• Author Website: www.alantitchmarsh.com (link will open in a new window)
• Format(mm): 240x160
• Product Weight: 625gm

Book summary

Growing up in the beautiful landscape that surrounds Ilkley in Warfedale inspired Alan’s early passion for nature. It was his Grandpa Hardisty who – with his allotment – encouraged Alan’s first gardening skills. In a time of post-war austerity, hard work and ‘making do’ was not just the lot of grown-ups, but for young Alan it was also the simplist pleasures that were the best – whether it was climing trees, fishing in streams, or riding wooden carts fitted with old pram wheels. His was not a deprived childhood, yet neither was the garden eternally rosy. But then – as Alan’s Grandpa was wont to say – ‘never let it be said that your mother bred a gibber.’ With the sharpest eye for detail and vivid recall, Alan brings to life the various family members, school friends and foes – teachers and local characters who formed the background and became the poereful early influences of his life. A joy from beginning to end, this is a classic childhood memoir.