Red, red robin : my long goodbye to home
Light, Alison, 1955-2026
Book
In 'Red, Red Robin', Alison Light puts herself into history, conjuring her girlhood from the 1950s to the 1970s, growing up in an extended family in Portsmouth, a blitzed city with its collective memory of war. Drawing on the souvenirs of her childhood - from her doll's house to her infant and teenage diaries, her comics and schoolbooks - she uses her own story to tell a richly-textured social history of post-war England: its popular culture and music, its language and humour. Warm, witty and often moving, Light recalls the all-singing, all-dancing little girl who becomes a grammar-school snob; the street kid turned fashion-conscious teenager, searching for the ideal boy, navigating a rapidly modernising world and a family life equally transformed. Going to university, she asks: what does it mean to leave home - and do we ever truly leave?
Main title:
Red, red robin : my long goodbye to home / Alison Light.
Author:
Light, Alison, 1955-, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2026.
Collation:
336 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781474619912 (hbk)
Dewey class:
942.2792085092942.279208 LIG
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4274507