Flickerbook: An Autobiography
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Nourished in her battle to make sense of the world by the riches of Manchester - the theatre, the bookstalls, the music, the cinema, a joyful love of the surrounding countryside - she grows into a fiercely independent young woman, and joins the anti-fascists, then the Young Communists. Refusing to go to university, appalled by her brief experience of teacher training college, she falls in love; but both her lovers are killed, fighting in Spain in the International Brigade.
Leila Berg introduces us to a sad, funny and passionate child who we see grow through the years. Flickerbook is an extraordinarily honest and moving work of autobiography which will change the way we think about children and childhood forever.
Nourished in her battle to make sense of the world by the riches of Manchester - the theatre, the bookstalls, the music, the cinema, a joyful love of the surrounding countryside - she grows into a fiercely independent young woman, and joins the anti-fascists, then the Young Communists. Refusing to go to university, appalled by her brief experience of teacher training college, she falls in love; but both her lovers are killed, fighting in Spain in the International Brigade.
Leila Berg introduces us to a sad, funny and passionate child who we see grow through the years. Flickerbook is an extraordinarily honest and moving work of autobiography which will change the way we think about children and childhood forever.
Released 19 yrs ago (4/21/2005 UTC) at
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Taking to the Cherry Tree meet on Saturday to pass onto other BCers.
Taking to the Cherry Tree meet on Saturday to pass onto other BCers.
Picked up as part of a bulk load of books for wild releasing. Thanks Molyneux!
Jewish writer leila Berg relives her childhood before the second World War.
Jewish writer leila Berg relives her childhood before the second World War.
Released 18 yrs ago (6/5/2005 UTC) at
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BOSH (Berks, Oxon, Surrey and Hants) BookCrossers are having a picnic this Sunday 5th June - we're meeting at the OBCZ at BLoc2 cafe at 11am, and will be picnicking on the riverside near the River and Rowing Museum at about 12.30. Everyone's welcome so come along for fun, food, books and chatter - just look out for the group of people with the books!!
This book will either be released somewhere along the riverside, or snaffled up by another BookCrosser!
BOSH (Berks, Oxon, Surrey and Hants) BookCrossers are having a picnic this Sunday 5th June - we're meeting at the OBCZ at BLoc2 cafe at 11am, and will be picnicking on the riverside near the River and Rowing Museum at about 12.30. Everyone's welcome so come along for fun, food, books and chatter - just look out for the group of people with the books!!
This book will either be released somewhere along the riverside, or snaffled up by another BookCrosser!
I found this, my first"find" in The Bloc, a sandwich shop in Henley. It's a lovely book. I was delighted to find it as I read her earlier book in about 1972 -Risinghill: Death of a comprehensive school. It was a moving book .As soon as I read that she had written that one I had to read this one.I am enjoying it right now.
As I grew up in Lancashire I was taken straight back to my roots when I opened this book.The style makes you feel as if you are witnessing what is happening.I hope it finds its way and is enjoyed by lots of other people and I am looking forward to reading comments .
As I grew up in Lancashire I was taken straight back to my roots when I opened this book.The style makes you feel as if you are witnessing what is happening.I hope it finds its way and is enjoyed by lots of other people and I am looking forward to reading comments .
