Billy Brown, I'll Tell Your Mother Audio CD – Unabridged, 24 February 2011 by Bill Brown

By the time he was ten years old Billy Brown was running a successful little business on the black market and, for the right price, he would deliver it direct to your door in an old carriage pram. This is the highly entertaining, eye-opening memoir of a young boy growing up in 1950s London. With energy and insight, Billy Brown paints a vivid and lively picture of Britain emerging from the ruins of the war, the hunger for opportunity, the growing pace of modernisation, and the pride and optimism that held communities together. Londoners were intent on getting themselves back on their feet and it provided the perfect opportunity for a boy with ambition and imagination. Born in Brixton in 1942, Billy Brown was a loveable scamp with a nose for mischief. Ignoring the shaking of fists from his neighbours, his mother's scoldings and the regular thwack of the cane on his bottom at school, Billy wheeled and dealed, charmed Woolies Girls, planned coronation celebrations, ran circles around circus performers and persuaded villains to work on his terms.

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