You can see the angel's bum, Miss Worswick!

by Mike Harding

Based – very loosely – on the truth, this uproarious first volume of Mike Harding’s projected autobiographical trilogy covers his earliest years. He claims he passed them in the company of a grandmother who spent much of her time lying under trolley buses or accusing piano tuners of being Adolf Hitler, and of a grandfather who beleived that the world is shaped like a banana!

The story opens in 1944, in the picturesque fishing village of Crumpsall-on-Irk, Manchester. The Second World War is nearing its final stages, peace and a brave new world are said to be just over the horizon – but the denizens of the Harding household know better than to listen to rumour, and live on in their air raid shelter. Eventually our authour emerges, to be attacked by a plasticine snake at primary school; to join the Wolf Cubs – only to be drummed out after his unsucessful coup against Akela, and at last, to reach puberty. (Here he discovers that the stork doesbring babies – but only if…)

Genres: Humor

144 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1985

Reviews

[Sophie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I only picked this book up because I was looking through my mum's bookshelves and the title and cover made me laugh. I have to say that the cover was the only funny thing of the entire book. I considered giving up with it at least 3 times but carried on to see if it got better by the end. It did get slightly better during the end which is why Igave it 2 stars rather than 1 star.