# A Yorkshire Boyhood

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- Authors: [Roy Hattersley](https://www.bookquiver.com/roy-hattersley)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-11-01

## Description

It was not until he was dead and I was forty that I realised my father was once in Holy Orders,' Roy Hattersley tells us in the opening pages of A YORKSHIRE BOYHOOD; so setting the tone for an elegant, continually surprising book. A somewhat precocious only child, Roy grew up surrounded by protective, ever-anxious adults, equally determined to expose him to books and to shield him from germs -- second-hand books were decontaminated by a sharp session in the oven. Uncle Ernest, a timber merchant's clerk celebrated for his skill at 'fretwork and the manipulation of Indian clubs'; a ten-year feud with the next-door neighbours; unwavering devotion to Sheffield Wednesday - all the pleasures and pangs of northern working-class childhood are magnificently evoked as Roy Hattersley takes us through the hardships of the Thirties and the Blitz; and into the 1940s, the 11-plus examination and Grammar School. Completely updated, A YORKSHIRE BOYHOOD is an autobiographical essay of unusual wit, eloquence and candour.

## Editions

### A Yorkshire Boyhood

- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-4914-311-8
- Published: 2017-07-06
- Language: en_GB

### A Yorkshire Boyhood

- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4911-655-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2012-11-01
- Language: en_GB