{"product_id":"growing-up-late","title":"Growing Up Late","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is an account of the realities of being a teacher in some of the most deprived cities in the UK. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis account, though, is neither romantic about young people nor pessimistic about the situation. It focuses on the teacher as a human being who experiences the difficulties of producing successful learners, leading to a range of emotions and stress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a memoir which covers much more of the author’s life than his work as a teacher. Later, as a policy adviser in a well-known think tank and major teachers’ unions, it reveals anecdotes about well-known political characters such as Michael Gove, when he was Minister for Education, and his then sidekick Dominic Cummings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe core of the book is an account of the author’s social and emotional life. Martin Johnson grew up in post-war London in a family which was increasingly affluent materially and impoverished emotionally. He describes becoming an isolated teenager, damaged sufficiently that it has taken \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emost of his later life to become a more rounded social being. It also describes how getting married when an immature twenty-two-year-old had repercussions, both the rough and the smooth, for the next forty years. Finally, it goes on to describe finding happiness with his second wife in his sixties.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487954674037,"sku":"9781806342495","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781806342495.jpg?v=1786355179","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/growing-up-late","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}