Birmingham Girls eBook Carol Arnall
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This book tells the story of our early lives in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, where we lived in a back-to-back house with our mother. Our father deserted Mom before I was born. She had a desperate struggle bringing us up during and after the war until she remarried.
Birmingham Girls eBook Carol Arnall
Author Carol Arnall shares her memories of growing up in Birmingham, England, in the 40's and 50's. Her family struggled up from poverty after desertion by her father. Ms. Arnall adds many vivid details of day to day life that put the reader right in the picture. Her descriptions of the tiny homes and inadequate sanitary facilities point out just how rough it was in those days for poor families. She shares memories of her school days and her friends, visits to relatives in the country, and later tells about her jobs. Eventually her circumstances improved and she married and had a family of her own.The book was written in a folksy way and made me feel as if the author were chatting with me while we shared tea in her home. She broke the book into small sections, such as school, pets, etc. My only complaint was that the book ended abruptly without a summing up. But overall, this was a charming book and well worth reading.
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Birmingham Girls eBook Carol Arnall Reviews
I had my eye on this book from the first time I saw it. I have to be honest, part of the attraction was because it's set in the general area where I was born and grew up, but having read it I would have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone.
Birmingham Girls is part memoir, part social history, part local history and part family history. It begins with the author deciding to research her family history. As she traces her ancestors and finds out about them, this in turn jogs memories of her childhood, the places she lived and the people she knew.
The book is written mostly in chronological order but sometimes drifts into other times and places. It is arranged in short sections, some predominantly about people and others about events or places. It is like looking through a box of old photographs, some are complete in themselves while others trigger associated memories. It's a book that's easy to dip into and read a couple of pages at a time, yet equally it becomes more compelling as the reader is drawn into Carol's life.
As an author myself, I find myself looking critically and wondering how this book would be handled if it were published by the mainstream press rather than as an independent. And while it would be tempting to neaten up a sentence here and there or arrange things in a different order, I have to say that I'm very glad that the commercial publishers haven't got their hands on it. Because, as it is, it is full of integrity, of little nuances and asides. It drifts like the mind does. It is the author speaking, telling her story in her own words. To interfere with that would be like the old-fashioned idea of insisting all actors and TV presenters speak in the same way.
If I had the job of editing this book I would probably suggest changing the last few pages. Here, a few random sections are added as afterthoughts and I would probably try to slot them into the main text. Yet, having said that, I love the way the book ends with an ephemeral carefree memory and I would rather it stay exactly as it is with a few aspects which might be perceived by some as faults rather than risk losing this honest and innocent portrayal of peoples' lives.
As I am from Birmingham as I was reading this book I could picture what I was reading about I enjoyed it very much
I was born in Birmingham UK so really related to this author - well rewritten and very 'visual' story line
Birmingham Girls is the memoir of a talented author, Carol Arnall. She takes the reader on a delightful journey through her life beginning with a search of her ancestors and continuing to the era of her life in which she now lives. Her stories are told with a voice that makes the reader a part of her family, as if she is describing it to a long-lost relative. And she closes her memoir with photographs that take the reader back to the different stories that they depict. After reading this book, I feel like I know Carol, her children, her husband and her family and friends. Reading about Rugeley and Cannock Chase, where she lives, I am reminded of two of her other wonderful books, Dancing With Spirits and Spirits of the Lights which are also set in this area and which are equally delightful reads.
Author Carol Arnall shares her memories of growing up in Birmingham, England, in the 40's and 50's. Her family struggled up from poverty after desertion by her father. Ms. Arnall adds many vivid details of day to day life that put the reader right in the picture. Her descriptions of the tiny homes and inadequate sanitary facilities point out just how rough it was in those days for poor families. She shares memories of her school days and her friends, visits to relatives in the country, and later tells about her jobs. Eventually her circumstances improved and she married and had a family of her own.
The book was written in a folksy way and made me feel as if the author were chatting with me while we shared tea in her home. She broke the book into small sections, such as school, pets, etc. My only complaint was that the book ended abruptly without a summing up. But overall, this was a charming book and well worth reading.
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