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Racing the Wind

A Cumbrian Childhood
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This powerful and beautifully-written account is the memoir of Patricia Nolan who lived in a tiny community in Cumbria and it captures the end of an era in the 1950s. 'When the first organ-transplant was taking place, when computers were starting to revolutionise our lives and television was arriving in the sitting-rooms of Britain, in my house we were still dipping buckets into a stream to make a cup of tea and going to bed by candlelight,' she writes. The tale covers three years of the author's life, made particularly vivid by a traumatic event which opens the book, but which goes on to depict a poor but close rural community with its village school, its annual country show, its Christmas celebrations and its local characters – all set against the dramatic back-drop of Scafell and the surrounding hills and moors on which she and her friends ran free.

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Release date on Litres:
08 August 2024
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110 p.
ISBN:
9781913159139
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Bookwire
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