{"product_id":"9781408889244","title":"The Life and Times of a Very British Man by Kamal Ahmed","description":"A revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s Britain on the boundaries of race'Full of charm' GUARDIAN'An account of what being British means' i'Captures a country in transition ... You can't fail to be moved' THE TIMESKamal Ahmed's childhood was very `British' in every way - except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, even when you were born just down the road.   This is his account of an upbringing of cricket and bucket-and-spade holidays, Angel Delight and the BBC - British to the core, yet always feeling foreign in the only home he had ever known. 'Ahmed grew up as a mixed-race kid in west London in the seventies, and his book charts the progress (sometimes slow and now without a few setbacks along the way) that our country has made on race issues since then. Brilliant' Rohan Silva, Evening Standard\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56298965893493,"sku":"9781408889244","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781408889244.jpg?v=1762784484","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781408889244","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}