Gritty and real. This is a semi-biographical book with all the nuances of family life in 1930s London. A life of love, loss, hard times, and surprisingly good times as we follow the good-looking and sexy Geoffrey's adventures at war-complimented and balanced against his life as a boy growing into manhood with his naughty girls down the pub and his thoughtless hedonistic ways. We meet his mum and sister who try to teach him manners,...