{"product_id":"9781467006279","title":"Pies Were for Thursdays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘One of my earliest memories is of the first time I tried to burn our house down. My mother had refused to give me something I wanted so I went out into the back court – or drying green - raided the dustbins and then piled up bits of paper and cardboard underneath the kitchen window of our ground floor tenement flat. Then I set the lot alight with matches that I had borrowed for the purpose. Unfortunately the blaze quickly died down and my mother was not burned to death as I had intended’.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDick Lynas looks back at his post-war childhood in the east end of Glasgow where, despite his self-confessed determination to be a spoiled brat, the strength of family values, together with the weight of his father’s hand fresh from dealing with Adolf Hitler, ultimately made a man of him – more or less.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Wonderful. I look forward to your final draft’... Mary McLaughlin, Bothwell\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘It is certainly more entertaining than listening to you going on about leadership and management’... Angela Hester, Strathaven\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘A stupendous saga’... Gerard McElroy, Cumbernauld\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘I laughed out loud at times’... Moira McClay, Inverary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Even people who do not know you liked it’... Mary-Rose Martin, Saltcoats\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘What are you doing with your royalties?’...Tom Bradshaw, Bellshill\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Thanks for the wonderful memories’... Kathleen McAleer, Australia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘I now understand so much that I did not before’... Neil Lynas, Glasgow\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘You – spoiled? No change there then’... Viv Casteel, Jakarta\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Little Lord Fauntleroy has nothing on you when it comes to being looked after’... Frances Burns, Glasgow\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘I just hope I do not have to proof read any sequel’... Phil Lynas, Glasgow\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167569985776,"sku":"9781467006279","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781467006279_p0.jpg?v=1763689510","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781467006279","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}