Ninety-three-year-old Victor Gregg has had a rich and fascinating life. King's Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag years of late childhood began. Then, after the years of street gangs and run-ins with the law, Vic leaves school at fourteen and his real adventures start, and with them a working-class apprenticeship in survival. Ending with his enlistment in the army on the day of his eighteenth birthday, this prequel to the bestselling Rifleman will appeal to the many readers who were charmed by Victor Gregg's engaging, honest and warm voice.
| ISBN: | 9781408840511 |
| Publication date: | 22nd May 2014 |
| Author: | Victor Gregg, Rick Stroud |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Primary Genre | Biographies & Autobiographies |
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Ninety-three-year-old Victor Gregg has had a rich and fascinating life. King's Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag years of late childhood began. Then, after the years of street gangs and run-ins with the law, Vic leaves school at fourteen and his real adventures start, and with them a working-class apprenticeship in survival. Ending with his enlistment in the army on the day of his eighteenth birthday, this prequel to the bestselling Rifleman will appeal to the many readers who were charmed by Victor Gregg's engaging, honest and warm voice.
King's Cross Kid A Childhood Between the Wars features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, eBooks of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
King's Cross Kid A Childhood Between the Wars is available in Paperback
King's Cross Kid A Childhood Between the Wars was written by Victor Gregg, Rick Stroud and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
King's Cross Kid A Childhood Between the Wars has 264 pages
£8.99
