A British Childhood
How Our Children Live Now
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Product details:
- Edition number Main Market Ed.
- Publisher Picador
- Date of Publication 18 June 2026
- ISBN 9781035080755
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 228x143x21 mm
- Weight 306 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
A searing account of our failure to look after the nation’s most vulnerable citizens, and a call to arms to all of us to protect the innocence of childhood.
MoreLong description:
'No home, no school, and especially no library should be without this story and this book' - Michael Morpurgo
'Original, surprising and compassionate without being earnest . . . Frank's book left me enraged, informed and moved' - Sathnam Sanghera
'This clarion call about the loss of delight and safety in children’s lives is also a reminder of the sheer magic of reading' - Guardian
During his time as Children’s Laureate, the bestselling author Frank Cottrell-Boyce travelled the country, meeting children and young people where they were: in schools and libraries, in young offenders’ institutions and prisons, many of them living in extremely precarious conditions.
As he met these children, he began to reflect on stories from his own childhood and on children’s lives in Britain during his lifetime – the imaginative connections we make and the sense of community that are so vital to our future adult selves.
A British Childhood tells the story of what it means to be young in modern Britain. It is at once a searing condemnation of our failure to look aftfter the nation’s most vulnerable citizens, and a call to arms to all of us to protect the innocence, and the imagination, of childhood.
'Especially powerful on poverty, reading and imagination' - The i
Drawing on stories gathered across the country, alongside memories of his own Liverpool upbringing, Cottrell-Boyce examines what childhood in Britain looks like now. Part memoir, part manifesto, it is especially powerful on poverty, reading and imagination More
