Alex Cotton
ASIN: B00KKVNIS0
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 260
Meet Alex, a thoroughly confused young girl living in 1960's Yorkshire. She spends her days stuck between an overbearing mother who believes she should have been the next Shirley Bassey and a father who’s main ambition in life is to blend into the background and avoid being noticed at all costs.Add to the mix some strange childhood friends, sadistic teachers, haircuts from hell and events that had to be lived to be believed and you can see why life is so confusing for Alex. If you remember sitting in a tin bath in front of the fire, outside toilets in freezing backyards and doing PE in your knickers then this book might bring back a few memories and make you smile."Our first term at Junior School saw the whole class caught up in a sex scandal. Not that any of us realised it, we were all still as clueless as each other.""We were very excited to be at the City Hall, as for the first time ...