Once in a House on Fire

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'A shining evocation of growing up, of yearning it . is a poetic social history, an enchanting and thrilling story that, although reading hke fine fiction, has verisimilitude running through it like a watermark . . . As a chronicle of northern working-class life in the seventies and eighties, and as a testament of human frailty, it would be hard to better this book. It is extremely moving It is also at times surprisingly, and gratifyingly, very funny' Tim Lott, The Times
'Once in a House on Fire, which reads more like a novel (Sons and Lovers, say) than a confessional, is full of energy, wit and a child's wide-open gaze . . . Andrea Ashworth escaped the fire to write a remarkable book' Blake Morrison, Independent on Sunday
'Not so much a memoir as a war report from the front line a book which is that rare thing, a book that is needed. It should be issued immediately by all inner-city educational authorities to girls at their comprehensives. In modern times, Andrea Ashworth... Tovább

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'A shining evocation of growing up, of yearning it . is a poetic social history, an enchanting and thrilling story that, although reading hke fine fiction, has verisimilitude running through it like a watermark . . . As a chronicle of northern working-class life in the seventies and eighties, and as a testament of human frailty, it would be hard to better this book. It is extremely moving It is also at times surprisingly, and gratifyingly, very funny' Tim Lott, The Times
'Once in a House on Fire, which reads more like a novel (Sons and Lovers, say) than a confessional, is full of energy, wit and a child's wide-open gaze . . . Andrea Ashworth escaped the fire to write a remarkable book' Blake Morrison, Independent on Sunday
'Not so much a memoir as a war report from the front line a book which is that rare thing, a book that is needed. It should be issued immediately by all inner-city educational authorities to girls at their comprehensives. In modern times, Andrea Ashworth is a role-model without parallel'
Margaret Förster, Sunday Telegraph
This is a brilliant book. Brilliantly written, brilliandy thought, brilliantly remembered . . . Ashworth has written an extraordinary memoir; the only pity is that she had to live it to make it' Scotsman
'This is not a memoir but a narrative set in the continuous present. Ashworth has the poet's power to make language, and therefore experience, seem new' Melissa Benn, Independent
Cover photograph © Robert CHfford Vissza