We Remember
Childhood’s End (A Life Lived Differently.)
| This is the Second Book that I wrote and Published on Amazon |
This collection of short stories is about a boy and his friends. It is a collection of memoirs, adventures and collected anecdotes that a reader may find interesting, even sometimes amusing as well as entertaining. It is a collection of true accounts of a selection from events in a life and of people who one has met or worked with during a long, interesting, and sometimes chaotic life. As a reader you will meet real people and true events but from which names have been changed here and there for the sake of confidentiality. These true stories tell about the life of me, my family and friends and of a period in England, London in particular that is little known to most of you and which is rich in modern historical interest both in humour and tragedy as well as people behaving both well and badly, sometimes downright unkindly. All the stories are perfectly true BAR ONE and it will be for the reader to select which one they feel is the ‘outsider’. No Prizes other than the satisfaction of communicating your choice with the author. On another note: –
{He stared back at his mother’s glare; he knew he would be in trouble over this. “You been in that bloody brook again boy?” “No Mum.” Was all he could think to say, and then he followed her glare down to his feet. The tell-take puddles of water seeping from his shoes onto the shiny lino of the kitchen gave the lie to his answer; tiny lakes on the shiny, oh so shiny heavily polished lino of the kitchen. He tried offering that cheeky grin, the one he knew might steal her heart yet again but no! Punishment seemed imminent, damned water! Sussed and ‘hoist once more and by your own Petard’}
A version of this scene could have been experienced quite frequently ‘chez Kreit’ back in the day.
Including the concluding chapter there are twenty-two chapters in the book. I intend to offer a brief introduction to just a few of those chapters here.
Chapter [2] My first days at school “All things bright and beautiful” but where I met the Dragon and discovered that I was meant to be Jewish!
Chapter [5] My two B&B holidays with my Nan and discovered real freedom for the first time.
Chapter [10] In this chapter a boy is badly bullied at school but plans a way to fight back effectively.
Chapter [12] A nearly disastrous border incident 1955 – train – Belgium / German border.
Chapter [15] I become a smuggler – hitch-hiking across Europe.
Chapter [19] Why I, to this day, do NOT do plumbing!
Chapter [21] Parent’s new house – new Clutch plates – new neighbours – making and enemy rendered easy by yours truly!
Please note that it is my intention to donate any profits that I make from the sale of any of my books to the Charity ‘Cancer Research’ Tony Kreit 17-07-2024