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      Blue Above the Chimneys

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      The wild childhood of a Glasgow tenement urchin Born during the Second World War in Glasgow, Christine Fraser was her mother's eighth child. Growing up with her siblings in a tiny flat, Christine lived an impoverished life but never once cared, until she was struck down by a t...

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      Product ID:9780241956724
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Blue Above the Chimneys
      Authors:Author: Christine Marion Fraser
      Page Count:256
      Subjects:Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Central Scotland, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)
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      The wild childhood of a Glasgow tenement urchin Born during the Second World War in Glasgow, Christine Fraser was her mother's eighth child. Growing up with her siblings in a tiny flat, Christine lived an impoverished life but never once cared, until she was struck down by a terrible illness.

      Discover the heart-warming and uplifting story of a Glasgow tenement urchin finding her way against adversity

      Born during the Second World War in Glasgow, Christine Fraser was her mother''s eighth child.

      Growing up with her siblings in a tiny flat, learning to avoid her hardworking, hard-drinking one-eyed father, making a menace of herself in the streets along with the other urchins, Christine lived an impoverished life but never once cared.

      Until she was struck down by a terrible illness.

      Suddenly, her wild days of childhood were over. A long spell in hospital completely changed her life. Now she found herself dependent on others for so many of her needs. And on top of that, her mother and father have died.

      Yet Christine was always resourceful and never once looked down.

      She knew that always there, if you looked hard enough, was some blue up above the chimneys . . .

      Readers are captivated by
      Blue Above the Chimneys

      ''Keeps you enthralled from the first to the last chapter''
      5***** Reader Review

      ''Christine wrote with so much passion that you could envisage each and every scene''
      5***** Reader Review

      ''A joyous read''
      5***** Reader Review


      Imprint Name:Penguin Books Ltd
      Publisher Name:Penguin Books Ltd
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2012-01-19

      Additional information

      Weight188 g
      Dimensions150 × 200 × 16 mm