Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood by Brian…

Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood (edition 2006)

by Brian Thompson

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What's it like to be the man of the house when you're still only a boy? In 'Keeping Mum', Brian Thompson describes such a story. Whilst other children were evacuated out of the big cities, Brian found himself travelling into London, and spent much of the war with an eccentric crowd of ribald relations.… (more)

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Member:	Alastair
Title:	Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood
Authors:	Brian Thompson
Info:	Atlantic Books (UK) (2006), Paperback, 234 pages
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very moving and extremely funny. Terrific on London and Londoners, immediately recognisable, and a wonderful and touching account of the beginning and end of first love. The aftermath of an air-raid (with piano) misses absolutely nothing. The lack of rancour for the dire predicament he was put in by his parents,commented on elsewhere, is truly amazing. And there's a sequel. (

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I am on my stomach, half across my mother's body.

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What's it like to be the man of the house when you're still only a boy? In 'Keeping Mum', Brian Thompson describes such a story. Whilst other children were evacuated out of the big cities, Brian found himself travelling into London, and spent much of the war with an eccentric crowd of ribald relations.

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