{"product_id":"9781914471940","title":"A Life's Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Life's Tales is a powerful memoir of a life lived in a past age, through poverty, strife, family life, war, conscription, sexual deviation, and climbing a career ladder to ultimate fulfilment with a life-long partner.   It's a life lived with compassion, insight, ambition and an adventurous spirit; a life fighting against discrimination, and a constant search for self-improvement.   Starting in 1935 these intimate, sensitively written, and engrossing memoirs span seventy-seven years of social change... Ranging from the poverty of a northern industrial childhood - shared with eight siblings - through the war years, to an adolescent awakening of homosexuality. This is followed by conscription into the Army, progression through the Woolworth company until its meltdown and into a period of creativity and ongoing self-discovery.   Told with wry philosophic humour, the story is episodic and follows a revealing journey through family life and struggle, homosexual experiences, the challenge of leading a double life, to 'coming out' as a gay man and the eternal search for a loving relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45458434687197,"sku":"9781914471940","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781914471940.jpg?v=1719948728","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781914471940","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}