A biography:
As a chronicle of northern working-class life in the seventies and eighties, and is a testament of human frailty, it would be hard to better this book. Extremely moving, at times suprising, and gratifyngly very funny.
Once in a house on fire, which reads more like a novel than a confessional, is full of energy, wit and a childs wide open gaze.... Andrea Ashworth escaped the fire to write a remarkable book.
