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You Can See The Angel's Bum, Miss Worswick!

Based — very loosely — on the truth, this uproarious first volume of Mike Harding’s projected autobiographical trilogy covers his earliest years. He claims he passed them in the company of a grandmother who spent much of her time lying under trolley buses or accusing piano tuners of being Adolf Hitler, and of a grandfather who beleived that the world is shaped like a banana!

The story opens in 1944, in the picturesque fishing village of Crumpsall-on-Irk, Manchester. The Second World War is nearing its final stages, peace and a brave new world are said to be just over the horizon — but the denizens of the Harding household know better than to listen to rumour, and live on in their air raid shelter. Eventually our authour emerges, to be attacked by a plasticine snake at primary school; to join the Wolf Cubs — only to be drummed out after his unsucessful coup against Akela, and at last, to reach puberty. (Here he discovers that the stork doesbring babies — but only if... )

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 192
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780860513469
  • Release date
  • 1985