The boy with the topknot : a memoir of love, secrets and lies in Wolverhampton
Sanghera, Sathnam, 1976-2020
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This is a hilarious and heart-rending reinvention of the modern British memoir. For Sathnam Sanghera, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. On the one hand, these were the heady days of George Michael mix-tapes, Dallas on TV and, if he was lucky, the occasional Bounty Bar. On the other, there was his wardrobe of tartan smocks, his 30p-an-hour job at the local sewing factory and the ongoing challenge of how to tie the perfect top-knot. And then there was his family, whose strange and often difficult behaviour he took for granted until, at the age of twenty-four, Sathnam made a discovery that changed everything he ever thought he knew about them. Equipped with breathtaking courage and a glorious sense of humour, he embarks on a journey into their extraordinary past trying to make sense of a life lived among secrets.
Main title:
The boy with the topknot : a memoir of love, secrets and lies in Wolverhampton / Sathnam Sanghera.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2020.
Collation:
323 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: as If you don't know me by now. London: Viking, 2008.Healthy reading collection.
ISBN:
9780141028590 (pbk)
Dewey class:
070.92920.SANHR920 SANB.SAN070.92B920.SANGB SAN920/SAN920920SAN
LC class:
PN5123.S274
Local class:
070.92B. SANB.SANB SANB 920.1920.SAN070.92 HR
Language:
English
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BRN:
663106
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