The Road Back Home

by Sid Waddell

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'I had not lived in the former pit village of Lynemouth since 1961 but the winding road north from Newcastle will always be the same nostalgic highway, each twist charged with vivid memories and powerful emotions'. So begins a story full of wonderful humour, emotional candour and hardy tales of tough times - a quietly epic family saga set amid the pit villages of the North East. It stretches from the 1920s, before Sid's parents had even met, to the final closing of the mine and his mother's death in 1999. Sid paints a picture of a colourful, tight...Read more
  • ISBN10 009193222X
  • ISBN13 9780091932220
  • Publish Date 6 August 2009
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 23 June 2016
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Ebury Publishing
  • Imprint Ebury Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English