From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England.’The war went. We sang in the playground, and “Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb’s boom, and two big explosions. and ” David’s father came back from Burma and didn’t eat rice. Twiggy taught by reciting and “The Pied Piper of Hamelin and “, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade and ” and the thirteen times table. Twiggy was fat and short and he shouted, and his neck was as wide as his head. He was a bully, though he didn’t take any notice of me.’In Where Shall We Run To?, Alan Garner remembers his early childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge: life at the village school as `a sissy and a mardy-arse’; pushing his friend Harold into a clump of nettles to test the truth of dock leaves; his father joining the army to guard the family against Hitler; the coming of the Yanks, with their comics and sweets and chewing gum. From one of our greatest living writers, it is a remarkable and evocative memoir of a vanished England.

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