Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew

By Bernard Hare

Book Overview

An eye-opening, jaw-dropping account of Britain's dispossessed youth and inner city wastelands by an insider, as funny and inspiring as it is heartbreaking. You're twelve years old. Your mother's a junkie and your father might as well be dead. You can't read or write, and you don't go to school. An average day means sitting round a bonfire with your mates smoking drugs, or stealing cars. Welcome to Urban's world. Bernard 'Chop' Hare was on society's margins, living on one of Leeds' roughest estates and with a liking for drink and drugs. So he knew what life in the underclass was like in '90s Britain. But even he was shocked when he met Urban, an illiterate, glue-sniffing twelve-year-old. And through Urban he got to know the Shed Crew - an anarchic gang of kids between the ages of ten and fourteen; joy-riding, thieving runaways, who were no strangers to drugs or sex. Nearly all had been in care, but few adults really cared.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340837349
• ISBN13: 9780340837344
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.9" x 5.5"