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    Voices in the Street: Growing up in Dundee
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    Voices in the Street: Growing up in Dundee

    By Maureen Reynolds

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    Born in Dundee in 1938, Maureen Reynolds grew up in wartime Scotland, a young girl surrounded by adult concerns. There was the endless queuing for rations that never seemed to stretch quite far enough, the blackouts and the air raids. But, if times were hard, they were also simpler, and in Voices in the StreetMaureen remembers with great fondness her early years with her wise old grandad, the enjoyment of riding on tram cars, the weekly wash house gossip and the people and places of her childhood. When she left school at fifteen, Maureen immediately started her working life with a job at the local sweetie factory, coming of age in the era of Teddy Boys and rock 'n' roll and enjoying the dancing with her best friend Betty. Then, as Maureen grew up, she found her love, only to see him borrowed in the name of National Service. But, through good times and bad, she would never forget growing up in Dundee.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlack & White Publishing
    Release dateFeb 21, 2013
    ISBN9781845026639
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    Voices in the Street: Growing up in Dundee
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    Maureen Reynolds

    Born in Dundee in 1938, Maureen Reynolds lived with her mother, grandad and brother in two rooms on Macdonald Street. She left school at 15 and has held a variety of jobs; currently she works at her local garage. Married in 1956, she has four children and seven grandchildren. Maureen is the bestselling author of Voices in the Street and The Sunday Girls.

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      I enjoyed the author's memories of growing up in Dundee. A hard life with very little money, and, as the older child of two (and no doubt because she was the only girl) Maureen ended up with the bulk of the household chores as her mother worked full time. Although a few years my senior, her descriptions of the times were very familiar to me, absent or distant fathers, clothes, music, the dance halls, shops and restaurants. Great read.