Something in Linoleum

A Thirties Education

Biography & Memoir
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Author: Paul Vaughan ISBN: 9780571281626
Publisher: Faber & Faber Publication: August 18, 2011
Imprint: Faber & Faber Language: English
Author: Paul Vaughan
ISBN: 9780571281626
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication: August 18, 2011
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Language: English

As a boy in 1934 Paul Vaughan unwittingly became part of a social trend - a great mass migration to the outskirts of London - as his family moved from Brixton to booming New Malden, where their new semi was a mere stroll away from countryside. This was Suburbia, and its outlook was not entirely promising. But Vaughan was so fortunate as to find an inspirational headmaster - John Garrett - at his local grammar school, which boasted a school song composed by Garrett's friend W.H. Auden. In due course he would find his way to Oxford; but as this evocative account testifies, New Malden would never quite leave him.

'Wonderfully readable, wonderfully wry.' Edward Blishen, TES

'Recalled with a Betjemanesque affection and eye for detail.' Peter Parker, Telegraph

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As a boy in 1934 Paul Vaughan unwittingly became part of a social trend - a great mass migration to the outskirts of London - as his family moved from Brixton to booming New Malden, where their new semi was a mere stroll away from countryside. This was Suburbia, and its outlook was not entirely promising. But Vaughan was so fortunate as to find an inspirational headmaster - John Garrett - at his local grammar school, which boasted a school song composed by Garrett's friend W.H. Auden. In due course he would find his way to Oxford; but as this evocative account testifies, New Malden would never quite leave him.

'Wonderfully readable, wonderfully wry.' Edward Blishen, TES

'Recalled with a Betjemanesque affection and eye for detail.' Peter Parker, Telegraph

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