- Publisher: History Press
- Year: 2019
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 198x129mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9780750991506
- Product code: 542600
Suburbia
A Far from Ordinary Place
David Randall New Paperback Illustrated
Postscript summary
While acknowledging the basis for the cliches levelled at the suburbs, David Randall – who grew up on the London–Surrey border in the 1950s and ’60s – recalls the foibles of his community and what life was really like in the respectable-looking semis.
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The suburbs - long sneered at for being dreary and stultifying - have always been far livelier and more entertaining than they're given credit for. In this witty and sharply observed account of what it was like to grow up in one in the 1950s and '60s, David Randall gives the other side of suburbia: full of absurdities and happiness, scandals and follies, and inhabitants both sage and silly. Here, at last, is the truth about what life was really like behind the often-closed (but not always net) curtains of our semi-detacheds. This is that rare book: a most unmiserable memoir.
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While acknowledging the basis for the cliches levelled at the suburbs, David Randall – who grew up on the London–Surrey border in the 1950s and ’60s – recalls the foibles of his community and what life was really like in the respectable-looking semis.
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