To a shy little girl, born in the 1950s, the world was sometimes a scary and bewildering place. Often frightened of her own shadow, little Sandra quickly discovers that her peers can sometimes be hurtful, and that grown-ups aren't always polite and kind.
This gentle, often-humorous story of approximately 44,000 words, takes you from her birth in a grimy mill town, to her junior school days by the sea - when fifty children in one class was normal - and adults regularly turned a blind eye to bullying. Forced into taking elocution and dancing lessons, which she really isn't cut out for, Sandra often finds it a struggle to meet the expectations of her parents and teachers.
The book about an ordinary life of the time takes the reader back to days of freedom and innocence, when young children walked to school unaccompanied and regularly played outside from dawn till dusk. It was a world of love and laughter, mixed with some sadness and uncertainties. An age when every penny counted and children were naive enough to believe that making babies meant taking a pill with a cup of tea.

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