Nab End And Beyond: The Triumph Of Sam Cooke

Nab End And Beyond: The Triumph Of Sam Cooke by William Woodruff


ISBN
9780349119878
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
736
Dimensions
126 x 198 x 45mm

An omnibus edition comprising the best-selling and widely praised 'The Road to Nab End' and 'Beyond Nab End'.

William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extremely tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn -- a treat was sheep's head or cow heel soup -- and got worse when his father lost his job when the cotton industry started its terminal decline.

At 16, William leaves the poverty of Blackburn for London, where he finds no streets paved with gold, but filthy tenements and such squalor only a great city can conceal. He gets a job in an iron foundry and finds lodgings with a beer-swilling landlady and her family -- a predatory daughter, and a tattooed madman of a son with whom he has to share his bed.

Then, at night school, William discovers his love of learning, which eventually takes him to Plater college, Oxford. As Mosley's blackshirts provoke fighting on the streets, William witnesses the courage of ordinary people in the face of war: a war in which he himself will soon be fighting...
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