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Beyond Nab End: The Sequel to "The Road to Nab End"

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Description for Beyond Nab End: The Sequel to "The Road to Nab End" Paperback. * The sequel to the no.1 bestselling THE ROAD TO NAB END. * ANGELA'S ASHES without the constant rain. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 216.

The second volume of Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec he turns up at a steel foundry and luckily gets a job. His digs are with an old couple in Bow where he has to share a single bed (head to toe) with their mentally retarded son.
Life in the foundry is grim but William is indomitable. For recreation one day he cycles (then in the days before inflatable tyres) to Berkhamstead to try and track down an old girlfriend. She's not there and he has to return in a snowstorm - it takes him eight hours to get back to Poplar and then he has to get up three hours later to work at the foundry.
Eventually he decides to 'get some leernin' and his first white collar job starts for the water board in ... Brettenham House! He continues to pursue his studies, finally winning a place at Ruskin College, Oxford. How the ex-steel worker became an Oxford academic - and William's concluding description of returning from the war to meet the son he's never seen - is deeply moving.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349116228
SKU
V9780349116228
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About William Woodruff
From his birth in 1916 until he ran away to London, William Woodruff lived in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community. He eventually went to Oxford University and lived in Florida for over forty years. He died in 2008.

Reviews for Beyond Nab End: The Sequel to "The Road to Nab End"
ROAD TO NAB END: 'A masterpiece' INDEPENDENT
A wonderful evocation of a vanished age' MAIL ON S.
'Once started, it is impossible to put this book down ... born writer with an eye for character & a natural way of writing' TLS
'Extraordinarily well written & vividly told, his book is rich in characters, facts, atmosphere & indomitable spirit. It is absolutely fascinating as a social as well as a family history' Eric Hobsbawm, GUARDIAN

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