num_pages: 258
description: Mum and Dad - Squibs and Bert - were a complete mystery to Brian Thompson as he grew up in Cambridge and London during the 1940s. His mother danced with the Yanks all night and slept under a fake fur coat all day, and when his father bothered to come home he resolutely discouraged Brian in everything. Whilst other children were evacuated out of the big cities, Brian found himself travelling into London, and spent much of the war with an eccentric crowd of ribald relations.
language: English
title: Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood
titlecomplete: Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood
genres: Biography, History, Nonfiction, World War II
ratings_count: 67
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Costa Book Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography
publisher: Atlantic Books (UK)