BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On

    (By Wes Streeting)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 22 MB (22,081 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 598 times
    Last checked 9 Hour ago!
    Author Wes Streeting
    “Book Descriptions: Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather Bill, an unsuccessful armed robber, spent time behind bars, as did his grandmother, who was also a political campaigner.

    Brought up on a Stepney council estate, the young Streeting saw his teenage parents struggle to provide for him. In One Boy, Two Bills & A Fry Up he brings to life the poverty, humiliation and incredible struggle for them choosing whether to feed the meter and heat the flat, put carpet on the floor, or food on the table.

    Wes Streeting knows it was the help and inspiration he received from the great characters that surrounded him, especially his paternal grandfather (also called Bill), that ultimately set him on the way to Cambridge and then Parliament. He knew he could draw on the strengths in childhood to eventually come out, and to go on and face his now successful struggle with kidney cancer.

    This honest, uplifting, affectionate memoir is a tribute to the love and support which set him on his way out of poverty, and informs everything about Wes Streeting's mission now in politics.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    How They Broke Britain

    ★★★★★

    James O'Brien

    Book 1

    Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope

    ★★★★★

    Clive Myrie

    Book 1

    Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

    ★★★★★

    Sam Freedman

    Book 1

    Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

    ★★★★★

    Daniel Finkelstein

    Book 1

    You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here

    ★★★★★

    Benji Waterhouse

    Book 1

    Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back

    ★★★★★

    Torsten Bell

    Book 1

    Family Politics

    ★★★★★

    John O'Farrell

    Book 1

    A Very Private School: A Memoir

    ★★★★★

    Charles Spencer

    Book 1

    Blue Murder: The Rise and Fall of the Conservative Government, 2010–2024

    ★★★★★

    Ben Riley-Smith