Racing the Wind A Cumbrian Childhood

Hardback Book

This powerful and beautifully-written account is the memoir of Patricia Nolan who lived in a tiny community in Cumbria and it captures the end of an era in the 1950s.
‘When the first organ-transplant was taking place, when computers were starting to revolutionise our lives and television was arriving in the sitting-rooms of Britain, in my house we were still dipping buckets into a stream to make a cup of tea and going to bed by candlelight,’ she writes.
The tale covers three years of the author’s life, made particularly vivid by a traumatic event which opens the book, but which goes on to depict a poor but close rural community with its village school, its annual country show, its Christmas celebrations and its local characters – all set against the dramatic back-drop of Scafell and the surrounding hills and moors on which she and her friends ran free.

• 143 Pages
• Black & White Photographs
• Hardback
• 222 mm x 145mm