Pier Head Gold - Forde, Eddie
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In 1952, after a family breakdown in Ireland, a boy and his father arrive in Liverpool determined to follow their dreams. The boy fails miserably at school but finds a way to freedom through his running ability. He goes on to win national and international races, proving to himself and those back home in Ireland that he can amount to something. Eddie Forde's entertaining and engaging memoir paints a vivid picture of a family's struggle to survive constant moves around the city and his father's impossible schemes to make their fortune.

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Produktbeschreibung
In 1952, after a family breakdown in Ireland, a boy and his father arrive in Liverpool determined to follow their dreams. The boy fails miserably at school but finds a way to freedom through his running ability. He goes on to win national and international races, proving to himself and those back home in Ireland that he can amount to something. Eddie Forde's entertaining and engaging memoir paints a vivid picture of a family's struggle to survive constant moves around the city and his father's impossible schemes to make their fortune.
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Eddie Forde has been writing for over 40 years. Attending courses at the Arvon Foundation in Devon and Yorkshire, where he was able to spend time with living authors, inspired him to become a writer himself. He has had many different jobs, including working as a milkman, a postman, a meter reader, a barman, a shop assistant, and more. After spending six years at night school, he trained as a primary school teacher and spent eighteen years working in Lambeth schools. He has published half-a-dozen slim volumes of poetry and written plays for the radio and for the fringe theatre in London. 'Pier Head Gold' is part of a trilogy with 'A Dublin Childhood' and 'Holloway Road' to follow later.