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    The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North
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    The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North
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    The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

    Written by Hunter Davies

    Narrated by Cameron Stewart

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    About this audiobook

    Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend, and being captivated by the latest escapade of Dick Barton on the radio. Chocolate might be scarce, and bananas would be a pipe dream, but you could still have fun. In an excellent social memoir from one of the UK's premier columnists over the past five decades, Hunter Davies captures this period beautifully. His memoir of growing up in post-war North of England from 1945 onwards, amid the immense damage wrought by the Second World War, and the dreariness of life on rationing, very little luxuries and an archaic educational system, should be one that will resonate with thousands of readers across Britain.

    In the same vein as Robert Douglas's Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood and Alan Johnson's This Boy, Hunter's memories of a hard life laced with glorious moments of colour and emotion will certainly strike a vein with his generation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio UK
    Release dateFeb 9, 2017
    ISBN9781471160028
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    The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North
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    Hunter Davies

    Hunter Davies was at the heart of London culture in the Swinging Sixties, becoming close friends with The Beatles, and especially Sir Paul McCartney. He has been writing bestselling books, as well as widely read columns for major newspapers and magazines, for over fifty years. He lives in London and was married to the author Margaret Forster.

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      A great social history of Britain in the three decades after the war as well as a charming biography. Hunter Davies seems to be one of those people who although no doubtedly very talented, seem to be in the right pace at precisely the right time. From a council house in Carlisle to the glittering Fleet St of the 1960's Swinging London. I lapped it up.