How Long to Read Just a Pompey Boy

How Long Does it Take to Read Just a Pompey Boy?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read Just a Pompey Boy by GEORGE. EAST

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

IT'S the dying days of World War Two, and a boy-child is born during a dramatic air raid that badly damages the family home and destroys the midwife's bicycle. At least, that's what George East's mother told him in later years. But then she also claimed that the painting-by-numbers picture of a bunch of sunflowers in the passageway could be a preparatory sketch for the real thing by Vincent Van Gogh. George's beloved but eccentric mother also claimed royal ancestry and that her ancestor and not Captain Hardy was the sailor Lord Nelson asked for a kiss as he lay dying on board HMS Victory. In Just a Pompey Boy, best-selling author George East recalls growing up in Portsmouth directly after WWII, when fitted carpets, double glazing, central heating and TV celebrities would be seen as far-fetched science fantasy. In a memoir that is funny, sad, heart-warming and always immensely readable, the author recalls a very different time to be young and alive in a characterful if war-battered city which was the Nation's premier naval base. A time when bomb damages were literally adventure playgrounds, food rationing was still in force and post-traumatic stress and even the concept of Health and Safety regulations had yet to be invented.As George remarks at the start of this first volume of his memoirs, the past has been said to be a foreign country; To the young people of today, this tale of a distant but golden childhood may seem to be about life on a very distant planet... ABOUT THE AUTHOR: NOVELIST, travel writer, broadcaster, actor, humourist and man of many other parts George East was conceived and bred if not born in his beloved home city of Portsmouth. In the years immediately after World War Two, he grew up in a very different world which was in many ways closer to the 19th than the 20th Century. After managing to leave school with no qualifications except a swimming certificate, George unintentionally set out on a record-breaking career path that included stints as a welder, plumber, brewer's drayman, Baker's roundsman, night club bouncer and pickled onion manufacturer before finding his niche as the boss at one of the country's first commercial radio stations. An unexpected (and undeserved) windfall meant the Easts could choose between paying off a fraction of their mortgage or buying a newer second-hand car. Instead they went mad and bought a ruined farmhouse and water mill on ten acres of fields, forest, rivers and mud in Normandy.George wrote about their adventures in finding, restoring and moving to live in The Mill of the Flea, and Home & Dry in France became the first in a best-selling series. Nowadays, George and his long-suffering wife Donella are often to be found at their base on the Isle of Wight, which was, as they say, the closest they could get to France while living in the UK. From there, the couple travel around Europe and write about their encounters with interesting people and places. George also uses his wanderings as a basis for his series about an eccentric and very quirky private investigator called jack Mowgley. As Donella says, the central character can be child-like and even childish, illogical yet good-hearted and even loveable as he blunders around foreign lands while solving murder mysteries in his very unconventional way. She adds that Jack Mowgely reminds her of someone she knows very well, but can't quite put a finger on...

How long is Just a Pompey Boy?

Just a Pompey Boy by GEORGE. EAST is 232 pages long, and a total of 58,464 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Just a Pompey Boy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 19 minutes to read Just a Pompey Boy aloud.

What Reading Level is Just a Pompey Boy?

Just a Pompey Boy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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