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03069aam a2200457Mi 4500 001 9BE5BBE0E96D11E8978F920F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181116010210 008 151026s2015 enkafo e 001 0 eng 020 $a 0552170658 020 $a 9780552170659 035 $a (OCoLC)932116360 040 $a AU@ $b eng $e rda $c AU@ $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d IaU $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a DA566.9.J64 $b A3 2015 082 04 $a 941.085092 $2 23 100 1 $a Johnson, Alan, $d 1950- $e author. 245 10 $a Please, Mister Postman / $c Alan Johnson. 246 3 $a Please, Mr. Postman 264 1 $a London : $b Corgi Books, $c 2015. 300 $a 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 20 cm 500 $a Includes index. 520 $a In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently notorious among the locals, in fact came as a blessed relief after the tensions of Notting Hill, and the local community welcomed them with open arms. Alan had become a postman the previous year, and in order to support his growing family took on every bit of overtime he could, often working twelve-hour shifts six days a week. It was hard work, but not without its compensations - the crafty fag snatched in a country lane, the farmer's wife offering a hearty breakfast and even the mysterious lady on Glebe Road who appeared daily, topless, at her window as the postman passed by ... Please, Mister Postman paints a vivid picture of England in the 1970s, where no celebration was complete without a Party Seven of Watney's Red Barrel, smoking was the norm rather than the exception, and Sunday lunchtime was about beer, bingo and cribbage. But as Alan's life appears to be settling down and his career in the Union of Postal Workers begins to take off, his close-knit family is struck once again by tragedy ... Moving, hilarious and unforgettable, Please, Mister Postman is another astonishing book from the award-winning author of This Boy. 541 1 $c Gift; $a Donna Parsons $d 2018 $5 IaU 600 10 $a Johnson, Alan, $d 1950- 650 0 $a Politicians $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Nineteen seventies. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Social conditions $y 1945- 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Social life and customs $y 1945- 650 7 $a Manners and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 650 7 $a Nineteen seventies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01037812 650 7 $a Politicians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069915 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 $a Since 1945 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 700 1 $a Parsons, Donna S., $d 1966-2018, $e donor. $5 IaU 856 42 $u http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/giving/bookplate/?id=248 $z Donor Bookplate 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020015038.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9BE5BBE0E96D11E8978F920F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search