Racing the Wind: A Cumbrian Childhood (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781910723975)

This powerful and beautifully-written account is the memoir of Patricia Nolan who lived in a tiny community in Cumbria and it captures the end of an era in the 1950s.

'When the first organ-transplant was taking place, when computers were starting to revolutionise our lives and television was arriving in the sitting-rooms of Britain, in my house we were still dipping buckets into a stream to make a cup of tea and going to bed by candlelight, ' she writes.

The tale covers three years of the author's life, made particularly vivid by a traumatic event which opens the book, but which goes on to depict a poor but close rural community with its village school, its annual country show, its Christmas celebrations and its local characters - all set against the dramatic back-drop of Scafell and the surrounding hills and moors on which she and her friends ran free

Author: Patricia Nolan
ISBN-10: 1910723975
ISBN-13: 9781910723975
Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2019
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.80d