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Nobody in Particular
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Nobody in Particular

By: Cherry Simmonds

Looking back, being the youngest offline children and a change of life baby, conceived and born on Mersey side during the war, was probably not the best start for my Mam or me... Hand-on-heart honest, at times tear-inducingly tragic but more often laugh-out-loud funny, Nobody in Particular is Cherry Simmonds' account of growing up on the back streets of Liverpool in the 50s and 60s, the youngest in a large, eccentric and sometimes exasperating Anglo-Irish family. Ruling the roost was Mam - menop...ausal and always saving for a divorce, or her own business, which ever was cheaper. And then there was Dad - who when he wasn't in the pub could invariably be found practising the banjo in the outside lav, and her five brothers and four sisters - two died, three got married (which amounted to the same thing according to Mam) and National Service would take care of the rest... Recalling the despondent, still-rationed post-war years as well as the heady, swinging 60s - when Liverpool suddenly found itself fashionable, put on the map by the Beatles, industrial strikes and Liverpool FC winning the Cup - and full of memorable characters, this delightful memoir by a born storyteller brings a bygone yet familiar and fondly remembered era vividly - and vibrantly - to life.

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