While building up what proved to be his very successful business as a window cleaner, Bob Kear met a lot of interesting and eccentric characters. He writes about them fluently and eloquently, and doesn’t shy away from giving his opinion on politics and religion, but his real writing flair shines through when he talks about people.
Kear’s sense of humour and determination really show through in his book, making him an extremely likeable character.
Thanks to his habit of writing everything down (‘on scraps of paper, backs of used envelopes, or any paper that I could lay my hands on until I could afford to buy notebooks’), encounters and events are not lost to memory but as fresh as if they happened yesterday.
Bob Kear’s warm and funny book conjures up images of a lost era, when horses and carts clattered down the streets, children played together with simple toys and a good old sing-song at the local pub was an evening’s entertainment.
Both Sides of the Glass holds a wealth of fascinating information about the bygone days of England’s south coast and will be of interest to world-wide readers who are keen on local history and remember times past.
Review by: angela collins
on 14th June 2009 5 out of 5
a brilliant writer ,he makes you feel ' there beside him', my friend lent me her copy to look at - i want one!
should be available in all libraries.
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