The Fib, The Swap, The Trick and Other Stories

<p>In <i>The Fib, The Swap and The Trick</i>, George Layton''s collections of short stories evoke a nostalgic, atmospheric view of growing up in the 1950s. Now published together for the first time as a bind-up <br><br><i>The coach started to move off. I felt frightened. All these weeks, looking forward to it, and now I didn''t want to go. Please, Mum, let me go home. She was running alongside, waving her hanky and crying . . .<br><br>He''d nagged his mother for weeks to let him go on the school exchange, swapping his home in the backstreets of a northern town for a posh house in London. With a proper family. With a dad. But now it was all going wrong . . .<br></i></p>