Publisher's Synopsis
This is the story of life in Fulham seen through the eyes of Harry Turner, covering the era from his early years to the age of 18 when he left home for the first time to do his National Service. He chronicles the raucous clamour of the market in North End Road, the awesome impact of the Festival of Britain in 1951, the Bohemian eccentricities of a London grammar school in Chelsea and the effect of air-raids in the last stage of the war. In a series of vivid portraits about post-war London and blossoming adolescence, Harry recalls ration-books, shortages and a sense of wild optimism for the future featured in those early post-war years in the bruised and austere London.
