Front cover of Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve by Dannie Abse, paperback

Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve - Dannie Abse

Dannie Abse

£11.00
  • Pages · 240 pages
  • Publication Date · 23/04/2026
  • Genre · Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Widely acclaimed for its warm humour, lyricism and honesty, as well as its accurate evocation of the thirties, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve has become a sung-after classic. In this delightful autobiographical novel, Dannie Abse skilfully interweaves public and private themes, setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in Wales against the troubled backcloth of the times - unemployment, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, and the Spanish Civil War.

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