This Boy
A Memoir of a Childhood
by Alan Johnson
- Publication
- First published 2013
- ISBN
- 9780552167017
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Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. Not in respect of the poverty, which was shared with many of those living in the slums of post-war Britain, but in its transition from two-parent family to single mother and then to no parents at all.
Prize history
- Orwell Prize for Political WritingWinner
Orwell Prize for Books, before the 2019 split.
