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pages cm John Sutherland's childhood ended before it began: when his father was killed flying a Wellington bomber. Half-orphaned, John was abandoned when his widowed mother decamped to Argentina with a new man. He was brought up by an assortment of well-meaning relatives and had an odd, unsettled childhood. He took refuge in books. But then his solitary reading habit merged into a bad drinking habit. THE BOY WHO LOVED BOOKS is the story of one man's, often desperate, love affair with reading matter; with drink and with an adored, but absent, parent. And during the shifting twentieth century, when profound changes shook society, it is also a personal account of what it was like to be a grammar-school boy, a national-service man and a redbrick graduate Originally published: London: John Murray, 2007
- Author
- Sutherland, John, 1938-
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd : [distributor] F A Thorpe (Publishers) Ltd
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781847825599
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography
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