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The Necessary Aptitude
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LENGTH12 hrs and 33 mins
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RELEASE DATE09-15-11
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Program TypeAudiobook
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Publisher's Summary
‘I never once attended a Sunday morning church service in Stanford. There was always the feeling that they weren’t aimed at families like ours.’
Pam Ayres was the sixth child in a hard-up family who lived in a council house, her parents’ generation were harrowed by the war. Yet they lived by the green in the village of Stanford in the Vale, where everything you needed was within walking distance and the sound of motorcars was rarely heard. Then reaching her teens, Pam realised how few opportunities she had. At fifteen she started working for the civil service, and for a social life she had the local ‘hop’. Pam knew she had to reach out for more, and sought it first in the WRAF. But it was some time before she discovered the unique talent that would make her one of Britain’s best-loved comics …
Containing Pam’s much-loved combination of humour and poignancy, The Necessary Aptitude is a beautifully written memoir of growing up in the country in post-war Berkshire.
©2011 Pam Ayres (P)2011 Random House Audiobooks
What the Critics Say
“Ayres gives a wonderful account of what it was like to grow up poor but respectable in post-war rural England. Some of her writing in the early chapters, describing life as the youngest of six children in a council cottage in the Vale of White Horse, Berkshire, has the original freshness of classics such as Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford.”Mail on Sunday
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"Very discritive"
Would you listen to The Necessary Aptitude again? Why?yes because I remember lots of things sheb talks about
What other book might you compare The Necessary Aptitude to and why?none
What does Pam Ayres bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?her dialoge
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Any additional comments?her poems will be next
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