Where Did It All Go Right? : Growing Up Normal in the 70s

from KeithJenner

This is quite a fun read, but is nothing exceptional. Basically it is the highlights of the authors diary from when he was a child. Interesting if you also grew up in the 1970's (as I did), but otherwise it probably won't hold much appeal.

from nigeyb

It's my childhood - growing up in London, England in the 70s - amusingly retold. The era when kids spent all their time in the school holidays out on their bikes and just turned up back at home around tea time. Such a shame that modern kids don't have those freedoms. Magical times. Well worth rea...

from Greatrakes

Andrew Collins is a journalist and broadcaster and this book is his antidote to all the misery peddled by Dave Pelzer and his ilk. Or, at least, that's what Andrew Collins says, but it's probably just an ego trip like most autobiographies. He alternates diary entries for each year with written ch...

from john257hopper

The author wrote this book partly as a counterweight to the large number of "misery memoirs" out there, in which people recount awful childhood experiences. Without in any way denigrating those traumatic experiences, this memoir and others like it remind us of the normal, loving childhood that fo...