Growin' Up: One Scouser's social history
Johnnie WoodsAn incredibly vivid impression of life for a youngster in one of the `rougher' districts of the city. An enjoyable, down-to-earth book that will appeal to Liverpudlians of all ages.
Social history as it should be written!
Johnnie Woods had a rare talent as a writer. He avoids both the rose-tinted nostalgia and the bitterness that are typical of many books which deal with the Great Depression and the Second World War. With a humour and an honesty that are most revealing, he paints a picture of his Liverpool during those hard times; a picture that is realistic, down to earth, and immensely entertaining. He pays warm tribute to the guts, the rough dignity and the tenacity of ordinary folk and gives an incredibly vivid impression of life for a youngster in one of the rougher districts of the city.