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Paperback Blue Above the Chimneys Book
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ISBN: 0241956722

ISBN13: 9780241956724

Blue Above the Chimneys

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Book Overview

Discover the heart-warming and uplifting story of a Glasgow tenement urchin finding her way against adversity

Born during the Second World War in Glasgow, Christine Fraser was her mother's eighth child.

Growing up with her siblings in a tiny flat, learning to avoid her hardworking, hard-drinking one-eyed father, making a menace of herself in the streets along with the other urchins, Christine lived an impoverished life but...

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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I was lent this book by a friend. It was an autobiography about the author's childhood and how a disease put her in a wheelchair..I always thought her Father would go first but apperantly not. Chris seemed absolutley devastated at the loss of her parents but pushed on.

An auto-biography that's a keeper

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
I found this book while on vacation in Scotland and loved it so much, I coerced friends in England to find me the others in the set. It is a wonderful, hope-filled account of the author's life in Scotland, and the effects of her handicap. My only question now is, what disease was it? She never tells.
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