{"product_id":"hunter-davies-the-co-ops-got-bananas-2017-paperback","title":"Hunter Davies: The Co-Op's Got Bananas [2017] paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poignant and very personal childhood memoir of growing up in Cumbria during the Second World War and into the 1950s, from columnist Hunter Davies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Despite the \u003cb\u003estruggle \u003c\/b\u003eto make ends meet during the tough years of \u003cb\u003ewarfare\u003c\/b\u003e in the 1940s and \u003cb\u003erationing\u003c\/b\u003e persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing \u003cb\u003efootball \u003c\/b\u003ewith your pals, saving up to go to the\u003cb\u003e movies\u003c\/b\u003e at the weekend, and being captivated by the latest escapade of \u003cb\u003eDick Barton \u003c\/b\u003eon the radio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chocolate might be scarce, and \u003cb\u003ebananas would be a pipe dream\u003c\/b\u003e, but you could still have fun. In an \u003cb\u003eexcellent social memoir\u003c\/b\u003e from one of the UK's premier columnists over the past five decades, \u003cb\u003eHunter Davies captures this period beautifully\u003c\/b\u003e. His memoir of growing up in \u003cb\u003epost-war North of England\u003c\/b\u003e from 1945 onwards, amid the immense damage wrought by the \u003cb\u003eSecond World War\u003c\/b\u003e, and the dreariness of life on rationing, very little luxuries and an archaic educational system, should be one that will resonate with thousands of readers across Britain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the same vein as Robert Douglas's \u003ci\u003eNight Song of the Last Tram\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eand Alan Johnson's \u003ci\u003eThis Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, Hunter's memories of a \u003cb\u003ehard life laced \u003c\/b\u003ewith \u003cb\u003eglorious moments of colour \u003c\/b\u003eand\u003cb\u003e emotion\u003c\/b\u003e will certainly strike a vein with his generation.","brand":"Davies, Hunter","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53588277395795,"sku":"XV81471153419","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/hunter-davies-the-co-ops-got-bananas-2017-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}