Springfield Road

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<p><b>'Honest, grippingly readable, funny and uplifting' MAGGIE GEE</b></p><p><i>Springfield Road</i>is a journey into childhood in the late 1970s, a time of halfpenny sweets, fish and chips in newspaper, scrumping apples and foraging for conkers. Set in the dawn of Thatcher's Britain, it's a salute to every curly-top, scabby knee'd, mixed-up, half-crazy kid with NHS glasses, free school dinners and hand-me- downs, as told by the daughter of an Irish jazz musician and a Jamaican go-go dancer.</p><p>It's about discovering that life is unfair, that there are bullies out there, and that parents die; yet it is the very antithesis of a misery memoir. It's a vivid, uplifting tale that seeks out the humour, colour and tenderness in the world, and when you read it you will say<i>Hey! I remember, we did that too!</i></p><p>You might say:<i>I remember being closer to the ground; I remember summers were longer and how oranges were bigger; I remember struggling to comprehend sex and war, life and death, heaven and hell, and perhaps youll say, I remember I missed my dad too</i></p>

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Salena Godden is a writer, poet and broadcaster who has been described as 'the doyenne of the spoken word scene' (Ian McMillan, BBC Radio 3's The Verb); 'the Mae West madam of the salon' (the<i>Sunday Times</i>) and as 'everything the<i>Daily Mail</i>is terrified of' (<i>Kerrang!</i>magazine). To mark twenty years of poetry and performance, a new collection<i>Fishing In The</i><i>Aftermath Poems 1994-2014</i>will be published with Burning Eye Books in the summer of 2014. Her most recent documentary for BBC R4 was<i>Try a</i><i>Little Tenderness: The Lost Legacy of Little Miss Cornshucks</i>, which aired to rave reviews.

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