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Babycham Night: A Boyhood at the End of the Pier
Babycham Night A Boyhood at the End of the Pier Author:Philip Norman Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits-his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde... more » Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don.« less