A Boy From Nowhere
Genre: Kindle Edition
Author: David Mitchell
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This is the story of a man's rise from poverty to eventual relative affluence and spans the period from th 1920s and the Great Depression to the commencement of World War II, during the 6 years of war, and the post-war years, up to the present time.
The first part of the story describes how the author was born in 1928 in Poplar - which is in the heart of the Docklands - in a period which can only be described as very hard time. His parents were poor and brought up their four surviving children in just two rooms on the upper floor of a Victorian terraced house during the early 1930s and there they ate and slept. Later they were able to take over other rooms in the house and so live a little more comfortably. The author describes his upbringing with cheerful good humour and with a clarity which avoids gratuitous sentimentality. His description of his relationship with his parents is touching.
The first part of the story describes how the author was born in 1928 in Poplar - which is in the heart of the Docklands - in a period which can only be described as very hard time. His parents were poor and brought up their four surviving children in just two rooms on the upper floor of a Victorian terraced house during the early 1930s and there they ate and slept. Later they were able to take over other rooms in the house and so live a little more comfortably. The author describes his upbringing with cheerful good humour and with a clarity which avoids gratuitous sentimentality. His description of his relationship with his parents is touching.