Cover of Voices In The Street: Growing Up In Dundee

Voices In The Street: Growing Up In Dundee

Born in Dundee in 1938, Maureen Reynolds grew up in wartime Scotland, a young girl surrounded by adult concerns. There was the endless queuing for rations that never seemed to stretch quite far enough, the blackouts and the air raids. But, if times were hard, they were also simpler, and in Voices in the StreetMaureen remembers with great fondness her early years with her wise old grandad, the enjoyment of riding on tram cars, the weekly wash house gossip and the people and places of her childhood. When she left school at fifteen, Maureen immediately started her working life with a job at the local sweetie factory, coming of age in the era of Teddy Boys and rock ’n’ roll and enjoying the dancing with her best friend Betty. Then, as Maureen grew up, she found her love, only to see him borrowed in the name of National Service. But, through good times and bad, she would never forget growing up in Dundee.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 421 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Voices In The Street: Growing Up In Dundee? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Voices In The Street: Growing Up In Dundee. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Wunschkind Shares World War II, childhood, biography
  2. Helga: Growing Up in Hitler's Germany Shares World War II, biography
  3. Walls: Resisting the Third Reich: One Woman's Story Shares World War II, biography
  4. The Hidden Hitler Shares World War II, biography

“If you want more of the same (biography about childhood), start with these.”

  1. A Lovely Little War: Life in a Japanese Prison Camp Through the Eyes of a Child
  2. Evacuee
  3. Growing up in a war
  4. Bertie, May and Mrs Fish

“If it was the World War II that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Admiral Nimitz: The Commander of the Pacific Ocean Theater
  2. G.I. Joe & Lillie: Remembering a Life of Love and Loyalty
  3. No Surrender: A World War II Memoir
  4. When You Come Home: The True Love Story of a Soldier's Heroism, His Wife's Sacrifice and the Resilience of America's Greatest Generation

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. No Safe Place
  2. On the Home Front: Growing Up in Wartime England
  3. Love Me Tender
  4. Better Place