Alan Johnson has 62 books on Goodreads with ratings. Alan Johnson’s most popular book is This Boy. · Just before Christmas I was kindly loaned “This Boy”. The book is a remarkably detailed, harrowing account of a one-parent (and then no-parent) family living in s/60s London in grinding Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. This Boy is no ordinary politician’s memoir, still less a politician’s ordinary memoir. It ends where others might begin: when the author is barely 18, newly married and only just starting Author: John Grimond.
This Boy is one man's story, but it is also the story of England and the West London slums which are hard to imagine in the capital today. No matter how harsh the details, Alan Johnson writes with a spirit of generous acceptance, of humour and openness which makes his book anything but a grim catalogue of miseries. _____ PRAISE FOR THIS BOY. Alan Arthur Johnson (born 17 May ) is a British politician who served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from to , Home Secretary from to and Secretary of State for Health from to A member of the Labour Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle from to Johnson served in the Cabinet in both the government. At the age of ten, Alan had only three books, which he read and re-read: Robinson Crusoe, Tom Sawyer and a Boy's Own annual. In , at the age of 13, he had been in a car no more than two or.
This Boy is one man's story, but it is also a story of England and the West London slums which are so hard to imagine in the capital today. No matter how harsh the details, Alan Johnson writes with a spirit of generous acceptance, of humour and openness which makes his book anything but a grim catalogue of miseries. Just before Christmas I was kindly loaned “This Boy”. The book is a remarkably detailed, harrowing account of a one-parent (and then no-parent) family living in s/60s London in grinding. This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review Former home secretary Alan Johnson's memories of extreme childhood poverty serve as an eloquent tribute to two extraordinary women.
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