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Dragged Up Proppa read by the author is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England

Very compelling beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important today as ever Sebastian Payne author of Broken Heartlands

Pip Fallow was born in the coalminers cottage where his family of eight lived in a village near Durham Pip was destined to join his father down the pit but the closure of his villages mine in the 1980s saw him at the back of the dole queue like the rest This is Pips story of being dragged up proppa living by his wits working and travelling the world before finally settling a few miles from where he grew up

A lot has been written about the red wall in recent years but Pip Fallow has lived it This is his account of some of the most important issues affecting Britain today from levellingup and the northsouth divide to social mobility and class and the devastating social upheaval caused by decades of deindustrialization and government neglect Showing how broken promises of the past impact his village and the politics of today

This is the memoir of a man who left school illiterate but has now written a book The story of a lost generation who were prepared for a life that had disappeared by the time they were ready for it of communities with once strong social ties that have now disintegrated and a way of living that simply no longer exists in Britain today

Fallows memoir is not just a classic piece of workingclass writing but a truly gripping narrative Brian Groom author of Northerners A History