{"product_id":"9781035080755","title":"A British Childhood : How Our Children Live Now","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Frank Cottrell-Boyce\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eUnited Kingdom, Great Britain\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 18 June 2026 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 208 pages\u003cbr\u003e143 x 224 x 21 | 306g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'No home, no school, and especially no library should be without this story and this book' - Michael Morpurgo'Original, surprising and compassionate without being earnest . . . Frank's book left me enraged, informed and moved' - Sathnam Sanghera'This clarion call about the loss of delight and safety in children’s lives is also a reminder of the sheer magic of reading' - Guardian During his time as Children’s Laureate, the bestselling author Frank Cottrell-Boyce travelled the country, meeting children and young people where they were: in schools and libraries, in young offenders’ institutions and prisons, many of them living in extremely precarious conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he met these children, he began to reflect on stories from his own childhood and on children’s lives in Britain during his lifetime – the imaginative connections we make and the sense of community that are so vital to our future adult selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA British Childhood tells the story of what it means to be young in modern Britain. It is at once a searing condemnation of our failure to look aftfter the nation’s most vulnerable citizens, and a call to arms to all of us to protect the innocence, and the imagination, of childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Especially powerful on poverty, reading and imagination' - The i\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57190491718007,"sku":"9781035080755","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781035080755.jpg?v=1781715875","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781035080755","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}