Saying Goodbye: My mother's life

by Keith Warren

My mother Maureen Buckley Shaw was born in India during the hey-day of British colonialism. My no-nonsense, "where there's muck there's brass" grandfather obliged her to return to England to be educated: she swapped sunshine, warmth and a leisured home environment for the gloomy ginnels of Hollinwood in the shadows of the dark Satanic (cotton) mills of Oldham. War stopped her going to University. She was instead sent by the Chemical Inspectorate to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492762679
• ISBN13: 9781492762676
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"