This Was My England

The story of a Childhood

Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: Robert Corfe ISBN: 9781906791896
Publisher: Arena Books Publication: July 8, 2011
Imprint: Arena Books Language: English
Author: Robert Corfe
ISBN: 9781906791896
Publisher: Arena Books
Publication: July 8, 2011
Imprint: Arena Books
Language: English

Few books evoke the private life of an era, as it was in England between 1935 and 1954, with such clarity, as this autobography. And it is only through such an intimate memoir that the hidden aspects of an age - so often lost to futgure generations - may be revealed as social history.

It comprises the "confession" of a prolific author, with all his thoughts and feelings, and no attempt to conceal his faults or failings. Whilst his happiest memories were as an evacuee at his grandparents' home in Wiltshire, his return to the dreaded London home brought brutal corporal punishment and periods of misery in a rigidly religious environment. But on being sent to a well-established boarding school, he went unknowingly from the frying pan to the fire, where he endured horrifying ritual torture and permanent physical injuries.

During his mid-teenage years, he was involved in a hopeless and self-destructive love for a film star, eventually leading to gestures - if not attempts - at suicide and murder, and this led inevitably to the disruption of his formal academic achievement. The psychological crisis led to a split between two sides of his family as to his future direction at the end of full-time education.

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Few books evoke the private life of an era, as it was in England between 1935 and 1954, with such clarity, as this autobography. And it is only through such an intimate memoir that the hidden aspects of an age - so often lost to futgure generations - may be revealed as social history.

It comprises the "confession" of a prolific author, with all his thoughts and feelings, and no attempt to conceal his faults or failings. Whilst his happiest memories were as an evacuee at his grandparents' home in Wiltshire, his return to the dreaded London home brought brutal corporal punishment and periods of misery in a rigidly religious environment. But on being sent to a well-established boarding school, he went unknowingly from the frying pan to the fire, where he endured horrifying ritual torture and permanent physical injuries.

During his mid-teenage years, he was involved in a hopeless and self-destructive love for a film star, eventually leading to gestures - if not attempts - at suicide and murder, and this led inevitably to the disruption of his formal academic achievement. The psychological crisis led to a split between two sides of his family as to his future direction at the end of full-time education.

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