Days from a Different World
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
In this new volume of memoirs, John Simpson turns his sights on his own childhood, through which he paints a picture of Britain in the 1940s.This is not a mere exercise in nostalgia, rather it is a journey through the England of the late 1940s in all its shabby wonder, which will also tell the somewhat strange and often deeply painful story of John Simpson's family. Here we meet his father and his grandmother still living in the small and rather depressing south London suburb which his family had built a