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In Parallel : A Yorkshire Childhood - Janet Barker

In Parallel

A Yorkshire Childhood

By: Janet Barker

Paperback | 30 September 2008

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In Parallel is a wonderful read, Janet Barker had a childhood shaped by a large family of fascinating characters and by a war that treated Hull so badly. This book is beautifully written, with a light touch and vivid recall family, friends and aquaintances are illuminated in all thier quirky individuality and events laid out with great clarity. In reading this book it felt an easy step to be in that past parallel world when bombs fell on Hull and children collected shrapnel to show and swop at school. When women took real pride in the cleanliness of their front door step, but when soot from chimnies made grimy clothes hung out on the washing line. When families were big and forever in and out of each other's homes and humour was found in everthing and everyone. --D. Wall, via Amazon.
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'In Parallel' is a lovely book. It is filled with more nostalgia than a Hovis ad and is much better written. It brings back a South Yorkshire which sadly no longer exists and reminds us how much the poorer we are for its passing.

The chapters on the author's life as a newspaperwoman in 'Donny' are a sheer delight to those of us who shared the experience. Old friends and acquaintances leap from the pages and I much prefer Barker's account of the way Parkinson left the 'Evening Post' to the version in his own autobiography.

There is an old Yorkshire saying, 'If that owt for nowt, do it for thee sen'. Barker has done this all for us and we should be grateful for her. -- Ian Skidmore, author and broadcaster

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