Confessions of a Country Boy

Overview

Memories of a Norfolk childhood in the 1950’s by one of Norfolk’s best-known humorists and broadcasters. 36 separate pieces, three for each month of the year. Affectionate and funny, the writing offers a sharp-eyed and unsentimental view of post-war life in Norfolk in particular, and the country in general, in 1950’s England.

‘Distance may lend enchantment, but my country childhood has inspired much more than rampant nostalgia. I relish every chance to extol the virtues of a golden age when… life was quieter, slower, simpler…’

Keith Skipper

Reviews

‘He delights our days and does so much for Norfolk’

Malcolm Bradbury

‘A real Norfolk dumpling who knows where to pour the gravy of common sense’

Derek Jameson, Eastern Evening News

‘I admire the way he writes and talks and feels about Norfolk’

Arnold Wesker

‘A colourful defender of the Norfolk faith’

Daily Telegraph

‘There is a serious intent behind the customary cloak of banter and good humour’

Steve Snelling, Eastern Daily Press

‘irresistible purveyor of earthy Norfolk culture’

Great Yarmouth Mercury

‘He ought to start a School of Creative Talking’

Malcolm Bradbury

The author

Keith Skipper is the author of a large number of successful ‘country’ books, among them:

Confessions of a Norfolk Newshound

• Larn Yarself Norfolk
• Skipper’s Byways
• Rustic Revels
• Norfolk Bedside Book
• Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy?