Bucket
The Bucket by Allan Ahlberg - the enthralling childhood story one of Britain''s best-loved children''s authors
''My mother, who was not my mother, I see her now, her raw red cleaner''s hands twisting away at her apron as she struggled to speak. Adoption was a shameful business then in many people''s eyes, the babies being mostly illegitimate. Better not speak of it.''
Allan Ahlberg was adopted as a ...
The Bucket by Allan Ahlberg - the enthralling childhood story one of Britain''s best-loved children''s authors
''My mother, who was not my mother, I see her now, her raw red cleaner''s hands twisting away at her apron as she struggled to speak. Adoption was a shameful business then in many people''s eyes, the babies being mostly illegitimate. Better not speak of it.''
Allan Ahlberg was adopted as a ...
