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==Autobiography==
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|author=Roy Tomkinson
|title=Of Boys, Men and Mountains - Life in the Rhondda Valley
|rating=3
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Roy Tomkinson comes over as pretty sentimental about aspects of his childhood. He was born into a family of boys, and surrounded by an extended family spread along the valley. He was a child in the nineteen fifties, when post-War austerity was still a feature of life in Wales. Nevertheless, discipline, love and understanding were meted out by his parents in equal measures to provide a strong platform for his childhood adventures. Roy and his gang grew up free-ranging the valley, teaching their dogs and ferrets to catch rats, trespassing on industrial land, learning about girls, and entirely missing the growing affluence of central Britain. For them, it was idyllic, and the author makes it clear, many times, how lucky he feels to have enjoyed such a stable childhood environment.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0862438683</amazonuk>
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|author=Michael Booth
