The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

Synopsis of The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

«The Co-Op's Got Bananas» is Hunter Davies's childhood memoir in post-war northern England, in paperback (408 pages, in English).

Hunter Davies recalls his childhood in northern England from 1945, in an era of rationing and scarcity, but also of street games, afternoons at the cinema and radio programmes like Dick Barton. The book portrays a close-knit community recovering from the ravages of the Second World War and a British society in full transformation.

The work was originally published in 2016; this paperback edition from Simon & Schuster Ltd was released on 9 February 2017.

For readers of childhood memoirs, British social history and the post-war period.