Wes Streeting
One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On
One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On
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In his memoir, One Boy, Two Bills & A Fry Up, Wes Streeting shares his inspiring story of growing up in the East End, overcoming adversity, and achieving success.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 09 May 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
The Sunday Times bestseller, Health Secretary Wes Streeting's inspiring East End growing up memoir.
A compelling story of overcoming adversity: Unexpectedly fascinating, amazingly inspiriting.
The Observer: ...the vitality of the book lies in its directness and conversational candour. An engaging memoir.
The Sunday Times: Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather, Bill, an unsuccessful armed robber, spent time behind bars, as did his grandmother, who was also a political campaigner.
Brought up on a Stepney council estate, the young Streeting saw his teenage parents struggle to provide for him. In One Boy, Two Bills & A Fry Up, he brings to life the poverty, humiliation, and incredible struggle for them choosing whether to feed the meter and heat the flat, put carpet on the floor, or food on the table.
Wes Streeting knows it was the help and inspiration he received from the great characters that surrounded him, especially his paternal grandfather (also called Bill), that ultimately set him on the way to Cambridge and then Parliament.
He knew he could draw on the strengths in childhood to eventually come out, and to go on and face his now successful struggle with kidney cancer.
This honest, uplifting, affectionate memoir is a tribute to the love and support which set him on his way out of poverty, and informs everything about Wes Streeting's mission now in politics.
Extraordinary: --- Evening Standard Funny, honest, and at times heart-breaking - a terrific read.
Lorraine Kelly: For a politician to have such an extraordinary story to tell is rare. For that politician to be able to tell it with such eloquence and benevolence is rarer still. This book is a triumph.
Weight: 226g
Dimension: 203 x 171 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399710138
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