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Sydney Carr

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Born

Newcastle upon Tyne, The United Kingdom

Website

http://sydneycarr.wix.com/the-fourth-lad

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Sydney Carr - Author @scarrface11

Genre

Biography, Fiction, Thriller

Influences

Leslie Thomas, Jack Higgins, Catherine Cookson

Member Since

May 2013

URL

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The Fourth Lad is the story of my first 20 years and is very much my personal recollections, for anyone who has enjoyed my memoirs, I have also written two novels 'Heroes?' and 'Instinctive Heroes' both set in 1958 Ashington. They are available on Amazon as Ebooks or paperbacks, hopefully, there will be more of the 'Heroes' series to follow.

Born in 1945, I spent the austere post war years living in a tough but friendly street in a tough Geordie Mining Town. One of eleven children, three of whom died before age two, my early years were made more difficult by an uncaring self-obsessed mother and chauvinistic father but learning to survive Mam's mean and underhand ways probably helped define my character.

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Average rating: 4.52 · 183 ratings · 16 reviews · 6 distinct works

	The Fourth Lad 4.51 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heroes?: Four months of dramatic events that engulf one family in 1950s Ashington 4.44 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Instinctive Heroes: Come the Moment - Heroes Step Forward (Heroes? Book 2) 4.62 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blizzard Heroes 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Composition Notebook: Cute Colorful Unicorn Girls Softcover Composition Notebook Wide Rule Lined Journal 100 Pages 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Blizzard Heroes

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The latest book in my 'Heroes' series is now available in paperback or Ebook.

Blizzard Heroes
Northumberland – 1963.
Six-hundred feet below Ashington, a brutal murder in the Duke Pit sparks a chain of events that uncovers the criminal activities of a local family and, a fight for survival in both Ashington and, the blizzard swept, Upper Redesdale V Read more of this blog post »

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