Second From Last In The Sack Race

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<p>From the bestselling author of<i>Going Gently</i>and the hugely successful autobiography<i>I Didn't Get Where I Am Today.</i></p><p>Born into poverty, saddled with a born loser and parrot-strangler for a dad, short sighted and ungainly, young HenryPratt doesn't exactly have a head start in life. But in David Nobbss brilliantly funny evocation of a Yorkshire boyhood, unathletic and over-imaginative little Pratt proves he can stick up for himself with the stoic good nature of the great British underdog</p>

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David Nobbs was born in Kent. After university, he entered the army, then tried his hand at journalism and advertising before becoming a writer. A distinguished novelist and comedy writer best known for<i>The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin</i>, David Nobbs was acknowledged by his peers as a comic genius. He died in August 2015.

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