Changing Times

Informationen zum Autor Jack Sheffield grew up in the tough environment of Gipton Estate, in North East Leeds. After a job as a 'pitch boy', repairing roofs, he became a Corona Pop man before going to St John's College, York, and training to be a teacher. In the late seventies and eighties, he was a headteacher of two schools in North Yorkshire before becoming Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds. It was at this time he began to record his many amusing stories of village life as portrayed in Teacher, Teacher! , Mister Teacher , Dear Teacher , Village Teacher , Please Sir! , Educating Jack , School's Out! , Silent Night, Star Teacher , Happiest Days , Starting Over , Changing Times, Back to School, School Days and Last Day of School . He lives in Hampshire. Klappentext The funny and nostalgic new Jack Sheffield novel evokes the North Yorkshire of the 1960s. Lily and her son Freddie contend with an unravelling family life. Zusammenfassung After the death of their mother, her brother, Freddie, has come to depend on her and her husband, but their lives will soon change for ever. On the cusp of adulthood, Freddie's life is simple: all he really has to worry about is school, girls and a spot of rugby.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jack Sheffield, Sheffield Jack
• Verlag: Corgi
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780552174046
• ISBN: 978-0-552-17404-6
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 128 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sagas, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Humorous / General, Yorkshire, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Humour, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Social issues, Humorous fiction, Romance: wholesome, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Generational sagas, c 1960 to c 1969, Biographical fiction