Alva’s Boy – Alan Collins parchment Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s annu­al lit­er­ary

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and understand his family

working hard to make a new life

In this absorbing book

all of whom are women and Jewish

Alva’s Boy – Alan Collins parchment Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s annu­al lit­er­aryAn unsentimental biography. This book is a frank, confronting yet surprisingly funny memoir based on the life experiences and recollections of a Jewish childhood over a time span from 1928 to the mid forties. In some telling, names of people, places and dates have been changed. Mercifully, those named who are or were of a repellent nature have long since gone to God. The stories present incidents from the life of one person, the first person narrator.