"Great Britain" . . "Adopted children Great Britain Biography." . . "Midlands (England)" . . "The Bucket : Memories of an Inattentive Childhood" . . . . . . . "Biography" . . . . "In this, his first book for adults, Allan Ahlberg sets out to recover or otherwise conjure up the early years of an oddly enchanted childhood lived out in a Black Country town in the 1940s. He writes of 'fugitive memories, the ones that shimmer on the edges of things: trapdoors in the grass, Dad's dancing overalls'." . . . "The bucket : memories of an inattentive childhood"@en . . . . "Authors, English 20th century Biography." . . . .