Racing the Wind: A Cumbrian Childhood

by Patricia Nolan

This powerful and beautifully-written account is the memoir of Patricia Nolan who lived in a tiny community in Cumbria and it captures the end of an era in the 1950s. 'When the first organ-transplant was taking place, when computers were starting to revolutionise our lives and television was arriving in the sitting-rooms of Britain, in my house we were still dipping buckets into a stream to make a cup of tea and going to bed by candlelight,' she writes. The tale covers three years of the author's life, made particularly vivid by a traumatic event which opens the book, but which goes on to depict a poor but close rural community with its village school, its annual country show, its Christmas celebrations and its local characters - all set against the dramatic back-drop of Scafell and the surrounding hills and moors on which she and her friends ran free.

149 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2019

Reviews

[Amanda B · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very enjoyable author memories from a simpler time ☺️

[Claire Cain · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyed every page! Have recently enjoyed a holiday in the area the book is set, was very interesting to hear the tales and history of the area.

[Chase Parnell · Rating 5 out of 5]

An enjoyable escape.