The Fib, The Swap, The Trick and Other Stories
Author | : George Layton |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2015-06-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781509810437 |
ISBN-13 | : 1509810439 |
Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In The Fib, The Swap and The Trick, George Layton's collections of short stories evoke a nostalgic, atmospheric view of growing up in the 1950s. Now published together for the first time as a bind-up The coach started to move off. I felt frightened. All these weeks, looking forward to it, and now I didn't want to go. Please, Mum, let me go home. She was running alongside, waving her hanky and crying . . . He'd nagged his mother for weeks to let him go on the school exchange, swapping his home in the backstreets of a northern town for a posh house in London. With a proper family. With a dad. But now it was all going wrong . . .