Book review - The Great Western Beach
July 24th, 2008
Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop reviews the latest releases.
Emma Smith’s childhood memoir The Great Western Beach gives us a glimpse of growing up in Newquay, Cornwall, between 1923 and 1935. The family is somewhat hard up with her war hero and gentleman father forced to work as a lowly bank clerk but determined to keep up his high standards for himself and his wife and three children. Every detail of their family life is retold through the keen eyes of a young girl. It is a delight to read.
The Great Western Beach, Emma Smith, Bloomsbury, £14.99, 9780747595915
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