Frank McCourt - ANGELA'S ASHES book A Bowie obsessive since childhood

A Bowie obsessive since childhood

but also a young boy's dream to escape the misery of the suburbs with a once-in-a-lifetime chance to join a rock'n'roll band and get out of town for good

His greatest hits were sung tearfully in pubs up and down Britain

The Long Road

Frank McCourt - ANGELA'S ASHES book A Bowie obsessive since childhoodStunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brings the family to the brink of disaster. It is a story of courage and