As a boy in 1934 Paul Vaughan unwittingly became part of a social trend - a great mass migration to the outskirts of London - as his family moved from Brixton to booming New Malden, where their new semi was a mere stroll away from countryside. This was Suburbia, and its outlook was not entirely promising. But Vaughan was so fortunate as to find an inspirational headmaster - John Garrett - at his local grammar school, which boasted a school song composed by Garrett's friend W.H. Auden. In due course he would find his way to Oxford; but as this evocative account testifies, New Malden would never quite leave him.
'Wonderfully readable, wonderfully wry.' Edward Blishen, TES
'Recalled with a Betjemanesque affection and eye for detail.' Peter Parker, Telegraph
- ISBN10 0571281613
- ISBN13 9780571281619
- Publish Date 18 August 2011 (first published 14 February 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English