On the milk
By: Willie Robertson
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Format: [text (large print)] /
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780750533195
Subjects: Social life and customs; Large type books; Manners and customs; Milk trade; Biography; Childhood and youth
Description: Fourteen-year-old Willie lied about his age to get a job delivering milk from the back step of the Fletcher's Dairy truck. He had guessed that a more mature person would have an advantage; and he was right. Soon Willie was putting his intensive training into practice. He could drop from a moving lorry while loaded up with milk bottles, and squeeze a penny or two more of tips from his customers, using a library of carefully crafted throwaway comments. Set against the backdrop of an industrial town in decline, this is a fabulous story of boys growing up in sixties Britain.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hachette Scotland, 2009.
Table of contents: title: Fourteen-year-old Willie lied about his age to get a job delivering milk from the back step of the Fletcher's Dairy truck. He had guessed that a more mature person would have an advantage; and he was right. Soon Willie was putting his intensive training into practice. He could drop from a moving lorry while loaded up with milk bottles, and squeeze a penny or two more of tips from his customers, using a library of carefully crafted throwaway comments. Set against the backdrop of an industrial town in decline, this is a fabulous story of boys growing up in sixties Britain.