On the milk
By: by Willie Robertson
Publisher: Hachette Scotland
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780755319282; 9780755319299
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Childhood and youth; Biography; Milk trade
Description: As a fourteen year old bursting with energy and life, Willie lied about his age to get a job on the milk truck. Well, maturity was called for. Delivering milk may not be everyone's idea of a glamorous start to your working life but it came to represent far more than Willie and his best friend Gordon could possibly imagine. Their eyes were swiftly opened to the big bad/good world and so they quickly learnt the vital necessity of thinking on their toes. Despite the hard backdrop of an industrial town ('The Ruskies wouldn't drop the atom bomb on Dundee; there's nothing here worth bombing'), this is a fabulous story of boys growing up in the sixties, of camaraderie and optimism, innocence and the harshness of life.