{"product_id":"homework-a-memoir","title":"Homework: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eDyer's first memoir recollects his childhood and coming of age in postwar Britain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny - I loved it: a piece of our English history, the story of a vanished time, which feels close at hand but thoroughly gone. What a story. What a great story' TESSA HADLEY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Homework, Geoff Dyer reflects on his childhood and what it means to come of age in England in the 60s and 70s, in a country shaped by the aftermath of the Second World War but accelerating towards change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was born in Cheltenham in the late fifties, the only child of a dinner lady and a planning engineer. Raised in a working-class area, Geoff and his mates found much joy recreating battles with their beloved Tommy guns, kicking a beachball around until its untimely death, and collecting anything and everything they could find; football cards, conkers and Action Man figures. When Geoff passes his 11-plus exams he gets in to a Cheltenham Grammar School, a school which drastically changes the trajectory of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044957307103,"sku":"9781837261987","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781837261987.jpg?v=1749519957","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/homework-a-memoir","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}