THE ROAD TO NAB END
William Woodruff
Ivan Dee Publishers (2001)

THE ROAD TO NAB END is a coming-of-age memoir of a working class boy growing up in crushing poverty in one of the dreary cotton mill towns of Lancashire in the north of England. Born in 1916, William Woodruff was only four when the wartime cotton boom ended in a crash that plunged the town of Blackburn into a depression from which it would never fully recover. Yet the hardships recounted in THE ROAD TO NAB END were more than offset by the humor, compassion and indomitable spirit of Woodruff's close-knit family and eccentric neighbors. The book covers Woodruff's life up to the age of 16, when he ran away to London. The writing in THE ROAD TO NAB END is intense, concrete, vivid and evocative.

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