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Across the Broken Years
By Kit Sadgrove
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Step into the shadows of a Georgian workhouse, where Sadgrove's great-great-grandmother clung to life while burying two children there. Sail into battle during the Napoleonic Wars as a 14-year-old recruit. Stand on the boggy soil where his ancestors eked out a living - and the aristocratic ballrooms of Dublin where they finally danced. Follow his mother, as she flees the advancing Nazis, and Victor, his father, as he takes the surrender of the German forces in WWII.
From bomb-making and scrubbing toilets on North Sea rigs to riding freight trains across America, Sadgrove's life is anything but ordinary. Spanning 300 years, this gripping memoir is part family saga, part personal reckoning-and every word of it a true story.
True stories:Attacked by a highwaymanTwo public hangingsCondemned to a hulk prison shipFighting the nascent US navyAttacking Napoleon's army
Living in the slums of LondonA bigamous marriageMy family's £2.1m ($2.8m) forgeriesWe are bankruptThe biggest fraud ever
Our aircraft manufacturing business in 1916Surviving the Irish Famine in 1845The Irish insurrection 1916Going to war in MesopotamiaGetting the first ever self-winding wrist watch
Being Master and Matron of a workhouseSending orphan children out to work in the streetsLife as a gunner in WW1Finding love in RomeLiving in a house without electricity
Sent to boarding school at age 5Surviving on sugar sandwichesBeaten for not being good at mathsEncounters with 11 paedophilesConfessing to masturbation
The right eyeball of a martyred saintThomas Becket's skullA thorn from Jesus' crown of thorns18 mortal sinsThe things have stolen
A knife attack in churchDeath from work related silicosisWeekly corporal punishmentsThe first supermarketWorking at a strike bound construction site
Cleaning toilets in the North SeaHitchhiking across the USARiding freight trainsMy first sexual encountersWomen I have known
My work colleague is killed by a drunkI become a millionairePlanning for a nuclear warMy protest outside the US embassyI create a national newspaperMe and Arthur ScargillI become a fake priest
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
282
Release Date:
2025-11-21
Publication Date:
2025-11-21
Publisher:
Blackford Books
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN13:
9798230488378
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Weight:
462 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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