{"product_id":"please-mister-postman-alan-johnson-1","title":"Please, Mister Postman: A Memoir - Alan Johnson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently notorious among the locals, in fact came as a blessed relief after the tensions of Notting Hill, and the local community welcomed them with open arms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlan had become a postman the previous year, and in order to support his growing family took on every bit of overtime he could, often working twelve-hour shifts six days a week. It was hard work, but not without its compensations – the crafty fag snatched in a country lane, the farmer’s wife offering a hearty breakfast and even the mysterious lady on Glebe Road who appeared daily, topless, at her window as the postman passed by…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlease, Mister Postman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e paints a vivid picture of England in the 1970s, where no celebration was complete without a Party Seven of Watney’s Red Barrel, smoking was the norm rather than the exception, and Sunday lunchtime was about beer, bingo and cribbage. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut as Alan’s life appears to be settling down and his career in the Union of Postal Workers begins to take off, his close-knit family is struck once again by tragedy…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMoving, hilarious and unforgettable, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlease, Mister Postman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is another astonishing book from the award-winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56856774148476,"sku":null,"price":8.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/PMP-AJ-02.jpg?v=1781036500","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/please-mister-postman-alan-johnson-1","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}