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Moss: A Novel About Chilhood in Sheffield in the 1920s
In 1918 a baby boy, Moss, is born in the shadow of the great steel making sheds of Sheffield. The novel is a series of stories about the various rites of passage Moss encounters, and it ends with him attending Sheffield’s Central School on a scholarship.
His father, Jim Garrett is a steel worker and times were hard. The stories reflect the struggles Jim and Moss’s mother Lizzie endure whilst giving their children the best start in life despite the odds.
The novel is semi-autobiographical. Bill Stanton had already written some of the events in the book as short stories for the BBC’s Morning Story series. Those stories were reworked placing Moss as the main protagonist, and then developed to encompass the whole of his childhood. In doing so Bill offers a glimpse of the life in the Steel City between the World Wars.
His father, Jim Garrett is a steel worker and times were hard. The stories reflect the struggles Jim and Moss’s mother Lizzie endure whilst giving their children the best start in life despite the odds.
The novel is semi-autobiographical. Bill Stanton had already written some of the events in the book as short stories for the BBC’s Morning Story series. Those stories were reworked placing Moss as the main protagonist, and then developed to encompass the whole of his childhood. In doing so Bill offers a glimpse of the life in the Steel City between the World Wars.
410 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 25, 2025
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