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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 941.0857092 EAN: 9780091894368 Edition: New edition ISBN: 0091894360 Label: Ebury Press Manufacturer: Ebury Press Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: March 04, 2004 Publisher: Ebury Press Studio: Ebury Press Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A fellow 'good childhood' survivor - at last!In a publishing world swamped with terrible stories of child abuse, this book is as rereshing as a rain shower on a hot day. At last the other side of the coin can be shown. Not everyone suffered abuse as children and Andrew and I are two of them. I am very slightly older than him, but everything he wrote resonated in my memory and he even reminded me of things I'd forgotten - thank you Andrew! In fact, many of his memories matched my own so closely that I had to check I'd never had a brother and had never lived in Northampton ... If you want to wallow in an age that had no style but plenty of soul, this is an excellent book. Bits of it lagged a bit, but the majority is fun, fresh, interesting and for those of us in our early 40's and who have survived a thoroughly nice childhood, essential nostalgia reading. Rating:  - YOU COULD FALL ASLEEP WHILE ANDREW COLLINS SEARCHES BACK THROUGH HIS CHILDHOOD LOOKING FOR SOMETHING WORTH REMEMBERING....Where did it all go right....? Good question andrew collins, but unfortunately - no-one cares. Andrew`s family once appeared on `telly addicts` and he spends pages telling us what they all wore, which jumper noel edmunds wore, what the questions were - and even the answers and how they arrived at them. Then we get to read page after page of andrew`s family tree - who did what for a living, whether they had an allotment or not, if they could drive a car... On pancake day, andrew, along with all his school friends, went on a visit to the local fire station....then we read about him playing with his action man... (it really is a job and half keeping up with all the excitement in this book...) Andrew thinks too many `whingers` have written books about their terrible childhood - like dave pelzer ( a child called it ) and he wants to tell us about `a normal childhood.` Andrew, i`m not sure you know what `normal` is, because no normal person could even hope to get away with writing such boring and utter drivel.It`s like watching a complete stranger going through all the family albums and giving you the complete run down on every single person that has ever been even remotely related to them. I mean, imagine yourself being riveted while he rambles on.. -: "Pap collins never learned to drive, a moped was as far as he got. My other grandparents both drove, he well into his seventies. Nan passed her driving test first time well into her fifties, but then was too anxious to use the car.." So you`ve been searching all these years for something that went wrong andrew...? I think this book could be it. Rating: - I can't review this one objectively...,,,because I was born in the same town just 3 years later. Thus I devoured it and passed it on to my brother who found it even more evocative. I suppose if you were born in the mid to late 60s or if you are a Northamptonian, you'll love it. If you're not, you may find it less appealing but it's warm without being sentimental and it's still a lovely account of middle England in an age that's now lost. If you want a humorous book by another person from the same town, set later in time and with the usual London-centric view of the town, try Robert Llewellyn's 'The Man on Platform 5' (a sort of 'trading places meets queer eye' in softback) Rating:  - A Normal Book for Normal PeopleI grew up in the Seventies not a million miles from Northampton and this book rang a lot of bells for me in many ways. The weirdest thing was recalling that we too used to call stuff we rated, 'skill' something I had totally forgotten until I read this book! The book is a lot like life, some dull bits, some funny bits, fairly variable overall. I found it entertaining rather than compulsive and amusing rather than hilarious, but good enought to merit me bothering to find the next one to read (Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now). And he's right. It's about time someone wrote more books about growing up normal... Rating:  - An enjoyable nostalgia tripYou had to be there, and if this is your era you'll probably enjoy much of this affectionate and witty account of being an absolutely normal schoolboy through the 1970s. Collins uses his journalistic skills to highlight and make relevant what it's like to grow up outside London in a town or city where nothing much happens (which is of course what it was like for most of us). The bit that was missing for me was the whole teenybopper bit, but I am a girl - boys' concerns were slightly different!  Try searching the Internet for "Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal In the 70s" or Ebay for "Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal In the 70s". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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