Call the Ambulance!
  • Published: 15 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9780552158534
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $14.99

Call the Ambulance!

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The touching, heartwarming memoir of an ambulance driver in 1970s Britain

Exploding pressure cookers, a thwarted wife's deadly revenge and transvestites in distress - manning an ambulance in the seventies kept you on your toes.

Having survived the rites of passage as a probationer, Les Pringle now has to face up to the reality of life as an ambulance man in Thatcher's Britain. He does this with humour and fortitude - two qualities which are essential if he is to cope with cases ranging from the absurd to the heart rending.

From attending murder scenes to delivering babies ... it's quite a life for Les, and one that he and his shift mates tread with warmth and humour in equal measure.
  • Published: 15 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9780552158534
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $14.99
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About the author

Les Pringle

Although born in Easington County Durham, Les Pringle spent his first eight years in Ratho, south-west of Edinburgh. His father's subsequent career moves led Les and his family on a whistle-stop tour of England before eventually settling in Birmingham when Les was in his mid-teens.

He joined Birmingham's Metropolitan Ambulance Service in 1977 for little more reason than it seemed a good idea at the time. That good idea led to three, unbroken decades of round the clock emergency work. He is the holder of the Queen's Medal for Long and Exemplary Service.

Les has two children and still lives in Birmingham with his wife, Marie-Madeleine.

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