{"product_id":"red-red-robin","title":"Red, Red Robin","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRed, Red Robin\u003c\/i\u003e, Light puts herself into history, conjuring her girlhood from the 1950s to the 1970s, growing up in an extended family in Portsmouth, a blitzed city with its collective memory of war. Drawing on the souvenirs of her childhood - from her doll''s house to her infant and teenage diaries, her comics and schoolbooks - she uses her own story to tell a richly-textured social history of post-war England: its popular culture and music, its language and humour. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWarm, witty and often moving, Light recalls the all-singing, all-dancing little girl who becomes a grammar-school snob; the street kid turned fashion-conscious teenager, searching for the ideal boy, navigating a rapidly modernising world and a family life equally transformed. Going to university, she asks: what does it mean to leave home - and do we ever truly leave?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully crafted and deeply pleasurable, \u003ci\u003eRed, Red Robin\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of the making of an English girl and of her sense of self. It asks whether we can retain a strong attachment to our place of origin - honouring our histories and beliefs - while resisting both nostalgia and disavowal. In this lyrical, analytical and politically astute memoir, one of our most compelling writers evokes a child''s eye view of the past through the lens of her adult reflections, querying too how we document that past and the nature of memory itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57484371001717,"sku":"9781474619912","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781474619912.jpg?v=1786266439","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/red-red-robin","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}