description: It is 1933 and William Woodruff, sixteen and passionately idealistic, is leaving the Lancashire of his childhood so vividly portrayed in The Road to Nab End. He is going to London, determined to make his way in the world. Set down in the East End, William discovers no streets paved with gold, but filthy tenements and squalor. His beer-swilling landlady has a predatory daughter and a tattooed son with whom he has to share his bed, sleeping head to toe. At night school, William discovers his love of learning. And as Mosley's blackshirts provoke street fighting, he witnesses the stoicism and courage of ordinary people in the face of impending war...
language: English
title: Beyond Nab End
titlecomplete: Beyond Nab End
genres: Biography, British Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, History
ratings_count: 387
series: Nab End
publisher: Chivers Audio Books