Noel was born into a large Catholic family in 1942. His mother, a shy and private woman told endless stories, portraying the world to her six children; assigning to each child a role which defined them forever, as they saw themselves through her eyes and identified with the stories she told. Noel, the second child, follows in his mother's footsteps, telling us about a world long since gone. Stories that are funny, sad and painful to read, which give us an insight into the post-war years when children could roam freely, where bomb sites were part of the landscape, and grown-ups inhabited a...