Five minutes love - Carol Hathorne

"I lay for a long time, listening to the sounds of the house gradually changing around me - the closing of doors and the switching off of lights. Warmth and security washed over me."The first part, Slurry and Strawberries, tells of life on Tipton's Lost City Estate. The early and junior school years of a working class upbringing depicting the warmth of family life set against a backdrop of social deprivation.Bread Pudding Days moves the story on to senior school, travelling to Wednesbury, broadening horizons, new friends and old truths. A Woodbine on the Wall covers the rite of passage era in which a young woman and a writer emerges.