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Granny Was a Buffer Girl - Berlie Doherty

Description: ISBN 1846470242 / Author: Berlie Doherty / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... Girl won the Carnegie Medal, the Burnley Book Award and the Globe-Horn Honor Book Award in 1986. ~~~THE STORY. This is ... more

... primarily the tale of a young Sheffield girl called Jess ~ but there’s loads more to it than that. Jess is 18 and is leaving home to go to France for her gap year. She is scared that the home she is leaving will change and that the place she loves will never be the same again. Jess also has a secret that she must share in case she doesn’t get the chance when she returns. The rest of the book sees Jess and various members of her family spanning three generations sitting and telling the stories of their lives. Jess learn...more

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Granny Was a Buffer Girl - Berlie Doherty: See Granny in the Buff! (1127 words)
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I have recently been re-reading some Berlie Doherty stories as part of a book promotion at work (I work in a library). Recently I noticed that Granny Was a Buffer Girl had been republished and thought it was time to read and review it. ~~~THE AUTHOR. Berlie Doherty was born in Knotty Ash (the Liverpool area made famous by Ken Dodd and his Diddy Men) in the November of 1943. She did a degree course at the University of Durham and did Postgraduate Certificates in Education and Social Science at Sheffield University. She has done quite a few different jobs, including working as a Social Worker, a teacher and for BBC Schools, before settling down as a ... Read the complete review