{"id":50504,"date":"2016-12-11T16:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T16:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50504"},"modified":"2017-03-01T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:33:10","slug":"springfield-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50504","title":{"rendered":"Springfield Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Springfield Road<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Penguin Books UK<\/a>
\n2014-09-30
\n272 Pages
\n129mm x 198mm x 18mm
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781783520558
\neBook ISBN: 9781783520565<\/p>\n

Salena Godden<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Springfield Road<\/em> is a journey into childhood in the late 1970s, a time of halfpenny sweets, fish and chips<\/a> in newspaper, scrumping<\/a> apples and foraging for conkers<\/a>. Set in the dawn of Thatcher’s<\/a> Britain<\/a>, it’s a salute to every curly-top, scabby knee’d, mixed-up, half-crazy kid with NHS glasses<\/a>, free school dinners and hand-me- downs, as told by the daughter of an Irish jazz musician and a Jamaican go-go dancer.<\/p>\n

It’s about discovering that life is unfair, that there are bullies out there, and that parents die; yet it is the very antithesis of a misery memoir. It’s a vivid, uplifting tale that seeks out the humour, colour and tenderness in the world, and when you read it you will say Hey! I remember, we did that too!<\/em><\/p>\n

You might say: I remember being closer to the ground; I remember summers were longer and how oranges were bigger; I remember struggling to comprehend sex and war, life and death, heaven and hell, and perhaps you\u2019ll say, I remember I missed my dad too\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Springfield Road” is a journey into childhood in the late 1970s, a time of halfpenny sweets, fish and chips in newspaper, scrumping apples and foraging for conkers. Set in the dawn of Thatcher’s Britain, it’s a salute to every curly-top, scabby knee’d, mixed-up, half-crazy kid with NHS glasses, free school dinners and hand-me- downs, as told by the daughter of an Irish jazz musician and a Jamaican go-go dancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,10],"tags":[81,25664,25665],"class_list":["post-50504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-uk","tag-england","tag-penguin-books-uk","tag-salena-godden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51976,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50504\/revisions\/51976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}