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Book of the Week: Michele Hanson - What the Grown-Ups Were Doing

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What the Grown-Ups Were Doing

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Michele Hanson - What the Grown-Ups Were Doing

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The neat lawns and large houses of Ruislip were the canvas for Michele's childhood.

Metroland: Ruislip's neat lawns and large houses were the canvas for Michele Hanson's childhood. Memoir read by Rebecca Front.

Written by by Michele Hanson.
Read by Rebecca Front.

Metroland : the neat lawns and large houses of Ruislip were the canvas for Michele's childhood, and food was the main preoccupation of her mother who was convinced that her Christian neighbours had no concept of how to feed a child.

The genteel suburbia of Northwest London in the 1950s is the setting for this memoir of an only child whose Jewish mother had loudly held opinions on everything from the stinginess of her neighbours to the bowel movements of her entire family. Negotiating adolescence was never going to be easy.


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Michele Hanson's memoir of growing up in 1950s suburbia

Michele Hanson's memoir of growing up in 1950s suburbia, the only child of a Jewish mother who has loudly-held opinions on everything. Read by Rebecca Front

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