Somewhere To Lay My Head
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his return to Glasgow and life down the pit. Once more, Robert's fantastic memory for people, places and anecdotes, combined with an ear for individual voices and the brilliant ability to evoke a bygone sense of community, will enchant his readers and sometimes appal them with the brutality of conditions he experienced.
Customer Reviews
Night Song of the Last Tram
My parents immigrated to New Zealand in 1952 to give my sister and I a better life than they had. My mother left her mother dying of cancer which must have been very difficult for her but they felt they had to take up the immigration opportunity. We were living in a tenement building in Niddrey Street Paisley (which on my return in 2004 had been pulled down. I was 3 and my sister was 4. I will be forever grateful to my parents for taking that risk with two young children. Thank you Robert Douglas for giving me a lot of laughs and tears and bringing back many memories our parents told us of the life style. I am just about to start your 4th book Who's Turn for the Stairs so I am really looking forward to seeing what that is all about. Cheers Veronica