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On the Milk

On sale

10th June 2010

Price: £10.99

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780755319299

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As a fourteen year old bursting with energy and life, Willie lied about his age to get a job on the milk truck. Well, maturity was called for.

Delivering milk may not be everyone’s idea of a glamorous start to your working life but it came to represent far more than Willie and his best friend Gordon could possibly imagine. Their eyes were swiftly opened to the big bad/good world and so they quickly learnt the vital necessity of thinking on their toes.

Despite the hard backdrop of an industrial town (‘The Ruskies wouldn’t drop the atom bomb on Dundee; there’s nothing here worth bombing’), this is a fabulous story of boys growing up in the sixties, of camaraderie and optimism, innocence and the harshness of life.

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Reviews

Daily Record
'A stoatin' collection of anectdotes...a wonderfully evocative pure braw blast from the past'
Sunday Post
'Willie Robertson's On the Milk is a hilarious coming of age memoir...his tale will have your sides splitting'
Lorraine Kelly
'I went from belly-laughing one minute to wiping a tear from my eye the next...Brilliant'
Rosamunde Pilcher
'A world gone forever is captured for posterity between these pages...touching, funny and completely real'