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Billy Brown, I'll Tell Your Mother

By: Bill Brown
Narrated by: Bill Brown
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By the time he was 10 years old, Billy Brown was running a successful little business on the black market and, for the right price, he would deliver it direct to your door in an old carriage pram.

This is the highly entertaining and eye-opening memoir of a young boy growing up in 1950s post-war London. With energy and insight, Billy Brown paints a vivid and lively picture of Britain emerging from the ruins of the war, the hunger for opportunity, the growing pace of modernisation, and the pride and optimism that held communities together. Londoners were intent on getting themselves back on their feet, and it provided the perfect opportunity for a boy with ambition and a lively imagination.

Born in Brixton, south London, in 1942, Billy Brown was a loveable scamp with a nose for mischief. Left to his own devices whilst both his parents went out to work, if there was trouble to be had, Billy would be in the thick of it. Ignoring the shaking of fists from his neighbours, his mother's scoldings, and the regular thwack of the cane on his bottom at school, Billy wheeled and dealed, charmed Woolies Girls, planned coronation celebrations, ran circles around circus performers, and persuaded villains to work on his terms.

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A Great read for anyone interested in life in post war London, from unexploded bombs, playing on the bombs sites, the arrival of the immigrants to the queens coronation, Bill Brown brings it to life along with the characters who lived in south London at the time. Highly recommended.

Post war London brought to life.

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I have laughed and cried at the ups and downs of billy brown brilliantly narration by the man himself,
Thank you for the hours of pleasure

Heartwarming, funny and beautiful

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I was recommended this ‘book’ by a work mate. Said he’d been recommended it by a friend a few years back and how he’d read it many times. I checked to see if there was an audiobook available only to find it was read by the author. I have to say my work mate was right. A great book telling of the authors early life in the aftermath of the Second World War in Brixton.
I lived every minute of this book. Tears and laughter in equal measure. I know I’ll be listening to it again and again! Highly recommended!!

Wonderful

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Engaging, witty, poignant, and entertaining; read by the original author who brings such a quality of warmth and mischief that one lives through the adventures with him.

Definitely one to revisit many times over.

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wish it was longer.
a follow up would be nice.
more of this please

its an honest book.

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