Featured on BBC Home Truths, this is the delightful memoir of a Beatle-mad, ex-pat Scot growing up in the north-east of England in the 1960s. The only girl in a family of boys, Janet was brought up in the 'Land of Boy' - a boarding school in Durham where her father Norman was housemaster. Every year, these seven MacLeods would cram into a Ford Zephyr for the two day journey back to the ancestral home on the Isle of Skye.
Beatlemania, the Girls from U.N.C.L.E, suffragette great-aunts, real chiefs, Donovan-spotting, a pastry scandal and a dash of blood-thirsty clan history - Janet's tales are amusing and touching, and vividly re-create the lost world of '60s Durham and the Scottish Highlands before mass tourism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Born With a Tartan Spoon in My Mouth 2 One of the Lads 3 Land of Boy 4 Casting Off 5 My Dad was Ringo Starr 6 'I Want Never Gets' 7 Road to the Isles 8 Pastry and the Devil 9 Picnics and Massacres 10 Orgies and Old Maid 11 Fairies, Ghosts and Donovan 12 Zizz-Zizz-Zizz and the Germans 13 Tigers and Yoga 14 From Pimlico to Carnaby Street
