Back Up North by Ally Shepherd

After a decade overseas, Ally Shepherd got stuck in the Northwest of England amid 2020's pandemic chaos. She promptly became a born-again Northerner and, probably annoyingly, wanted to tell the world.?Documenting her journey to understand herself through the region in which she grew up, she explores its pressing questions, such as: ? Is there still a North/South divide?? Was she descended from a Pendle witch? ? Why does Liverpool have a slavery museum? ? What's with Scouse and Geordie accents? ? Where are Northern women's stories in TV, film, and literature? ? And is it okay to eat chips, cheese and gravy? (Spoiler: The answer to the last question is `yes').?Drawing on history, politics, pop culture, and folklore - as well as a childhood in Cheshire, family stories from Lancashire, and an education in Yorkshire - Back Up North explores the region's diverse legacy of food, music, literature, dialect, social change and superstition.?Give it a read, pet. Tha might learn summat..
Binding: Paperback / softback