This book is an interim memoir...Campbell was born and reared in a loving and, evidently admirable, respectable, serious Protestant working-class family in Glasglow...His father did wartime service in the Navy, then, upwardly mobile, for British Rail...His musical mother was a Land Girl in the war...His elder twin sisters would be the first in the family to go to university...His own schooling was unsatisfactory, difficult to see just why, and he left at 15 to be apprenticed to a printing firm...He stuck that for three years...Meanwhile, his father being promoted in British Rail, his parents moved to the South of England...This memoir of boyhood is fascinating...This memoir is one of a youth that remains vividly alive in memory, and now comes alive again on the page...It is very Scottish, revealing and yet also restrained in its selection of moments in a life–a memoir which is also a work of art.
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