All Together Now?
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All Together Now?

One Man's Walk in Search of His Father and a Lost England

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eBook - ePub

All Together Now?

One Man's Walk in Search of His Father and a Lost England

About this book

'This important, disturbing and frequently heartbreaking book should be read by every politician in Westminster.' Adrian Tempany, Observer

'In a few weeks' time, it would be thirty-five years to the day since those men and women had walked 340 miles to try to save their communities and their culture, and thirty-five years since I had turned down Pete's invitation to join them. I called work and booked some time off. Then I bought a one-way train ticket to Liverpool.'

In 1981, Mike Carter's dad, Pete, organised the People's March for Jobs, which saw 300 people walk from Liverpool to London to protest as the Thatcher government's policies devastated industrial Britain and sent unemployment skyrocketing. Just before the 2016 EU referendum, Mike set off to walk the same route in a quest to better understand his dad and his country.

As he walked, Mike found many echoes of the early eighties: a working class overlooked and ignored by Westminster politicans; communities hollowed out but fiercely resistant; anger and despair co-existing with hope and determination for change. And he also found that he and Pete shared more in common than he might have thought.

All Together Now? maps the intricate, overlapping path of one man's journey and that of an entire country. It is a book about belonging, about whether to stay or go, and about the need to write new stories for our communities and ourselves.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue: The Smoker
  7. 1: The Mug
  8. 2: The Good Companions
  9. 3: The Desire Path
  10. 4: The Big Sell-Off
  11. 5: The Trial
  12. 6: Happy Valley
  13. 7: Beartown
  14. 8: God and Man
  15. 9: The Penitent Pilgrim
  16. 10: The Birds and the Bees
  17. 11: A Different Path
  18. 12: The Great Education Trick
  19. 13: The Shirt Off Our Backs
  20. 14: Little Local Difficulties
  21. 15: Bricks and Mortar
  22. 16: Fathers’ Days
  23. 17: The Decline and Fall
  24. 18: The Punk Rock Priest
  25. 19: A Touch of Class
  26. 20: Status Anxiety
  27. 21: Virtuous Circle
  28. 22: The End of the Road
  29. Acknowledgements
  30. About the Author
  31. Copyright