A great book, as Canadian as beaver tails.
I knew nothing about the author and very little of GBS but saw this book all over St John's on a recent visit to NFLD. Then my book club read it, although I had to miss that meeting due to some adoption training. Still I didn't want it to slip by and I'm glad I didn't.
The first 2/3 of the book is all stories of growing up in small town fishing NFLD and I loved it. Family, religion, fishing, work, music, food, it's all here in charming stories that will make you laugh and make you cry. The last section of the book is more about Alan's start in the music industry but even that has many ideas that will ring true to many, about your first time alone in the big city and just throwing your hat in the air like Mary Tyler Moore.
I would recommend this to everyone, a winning book that transports to a bygone era.