Springfield Road A Poet’s Childhood Revisited

<p><b><span>A moving and poetic memoir about growing up without a father and a vivid portrait of the seventies</span><span> from award-winning author and poet Salena Godden</span></b></p><p>This is the story of a home. A story rooted in love. The story of a poet born of an Irish jazz musician and a Jamaican go-go dancer, an absent father and a resilient mother. <br><br>In <i>Springfield Road</i>, Salena Godden evokes an era when oranges seemed bigger and summers were longer, a world of half-penny sweets, free school milk, hand-me-downs and Thatcher's Britain, for those too young to remember and for those old enough to know. For Salena, it was a time for learning that life can be brutal with first betrayals and first losses, but also that there are endless riches to be found in the world. <br><br>In equal parts powerful, tender and fearless, <i>Springfield Road</i> shows us where, in a world full of shadows, the light is to be found.</p>