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  • Published: 30 June 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448184965
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Second From Last In The Sack Race

(Henry Pratt)




From the bestselling author of Going Gently and the hugely successful autobiography I Didn't Get Where I Am Today

From the bestselling author of Going Gently and the hugely successful autobiography I Didn't Get Where I Am Today.

Born into poverty, saddled with a born loser and parrot-strangler for a dad, short sighted and ungainly, young Henry Pratt doesn't exactly have a head start in life.
But in David Nobbs’s brilliantly funny evocation of a Yorkshire boyhood, unathletic and over-imaginative little Pratt proves he can stick up for himself with the stoic good nature of the great British underdog

  • Published: 30 June 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448184965
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

About the author

David Nobbs

David Nobbs was born in Kent. After university, he entered the army, then tried his hand at journalism and advertising before becoming a writer. A distinguished novelist and comedy writer best known for The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, David Nobbs was acknowledged by his peers as a comic genius. He died in August 2015.

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