Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

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In the 1960s, Danny, a young boy living in a fishing port on the east coast, takes an illegal job at a Chinese restaurant to help support his family. He discovers a passion for cooking but struggles to balance his family life with his ambitions. Inspired by Leo Tolstoy's series of semi-biographical vignettes, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth is a classic coming-of-age novel set in a rarely documented setting.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 28 September 2023
Publisher: The Book Guild Ltd

Danny knows that his family is not poor because they have not one, but two tea towels. His mother never learned to cook, so Danny has to do his best. The family lives on the edge of legality, monitored by both police and social services. Life in a fishing port on the east coast in the 1960s is not easy.

Aided by the local grocer, Danny takes an illegal job working at the newly opened Chinese restaurant and discovers a passion for cooking. However, he finds it hard to combine his barely functioning family life with his ambitions as a chef; fighting to protect his clever brother, idle sister, and prostitute mother, while his father looks after no one but himself.

Inspired by Leo Tolstoy's series of semi-biographical vignettes, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth is a classic coming-of-age novel, cast in a rarely documented setting in the voice of a rarely heard narrator.

Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781915853219