As a child Tara Westover had never set foot in a classroom. She’d never tried Tylenol and ‘Holocaust’ was a strange and meaningless word. Born deep in the mountains of Idaho to survivalist parents, she was taught to prepare for the end of a world that she did not know.
Enter the rough world of London’s East End in the 1950’s. Living quarters are tight and personal hygiene is a luxury. Abandoned bombed lots are where children play and trash is dumped. Buildings that were condemned 15+ years ago still house hundreds, even thousands of people who have nowhere else to go. And yet the people of the East End manage to be as good humoured as they are tough.
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Tagged autobiography,biography,doomsday,educated,emotional abuse