Dragged Up Proppa
Growing up in Britain’s Forgotten North
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
8 August 2023
Summary
Dragged Up Proppa is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England.
‘Very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important today as ever’ - Sebastian Payne, author of Broken Heartlands
Pip Fallow was born in the coal-miner’s cottage where his family of eight lived, in a village near Durham. Pip was destined to join his father down the pit, but the closure of his village’s mine in the 1980s saw him a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529050851 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529050855 |
| Author: | Pip Fallow |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 8 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 518g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 164mm x 242mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
A very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and an England that no longer exists but remains just as important as ever – Sebastian Payne, author of Broken Heartlands
Pip Fallow’s memoir is not just a classic piece of working-class writing, but a truly gripping narrative – Brian Groom, author of Northerners: A History
Pip Fallow
Pip Fallow grew up on a council estate deep in the coal fields of County Durham. Spewed out of the newly implemented comprehensive education system and destined for a life of cutting coal, he found no coal to cut. Thatcher’s mass pit closures had taken hold. Illiterate and armed with little more than a CSE pass in metalwork, he joined the back of a dole queue three and a half million souls long. He served an apprenticeship as a bricklayer as all around went on strike and fought bitterly with their own government. His apprenticeship complete, it became apparent that due to the recession there were no bricks to lay. He was told by Thatcher he was a ‘moaning Minnie’ and by Lord Tebbit to get on his bike and go find work. He did, living on his wits for a decade before landing back in a broken North East, now literate and ready to write. He is a bricklayer, published author and calls himself ‘a former young socialist’. He was shortlisted for the Sid Chaplin Award for working class writing and has dabbled in acting, with a brief role in a Ken Loach film.
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