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.AUTHOR:Patricia Nolan was born and raised in a tiny, remote village in the Lake District in the early 1950s. She went on to excel at the village school and became a deputy-head teacher in London, where she lives now. A published poet and short-story writer, Racing the Wind is her autobiography. ISBN: 9781910723975Author: NOLAN, PATRICIAFormat: HardcoverPublication date: 01/11/2019RRP: $29.99Pages: 128Dimension: 216mm X 138mmImprint: Merlin Unwin