Alva’s Boy – Alan Collins parchment Daniel and Joanne and all

Daniel and Joanne and all my grandchildren Eli

I recommend it unreservedly’—GRAEME SIMSION

But they are threaded together by one unmistakable truth: Their lives

For the most tragic reasons

In this absorbing book

Alva’s Boy – Alan Collins parchment Daniel and Joanne and allAn unsentimental biography. This book is a frank, confronting yet surprisingly funny memoir based on the life experiences and recollections of a Jewish childhood over a time span from 1928 to the mid forties. In some telling, names of people, places and dates have been changed. Mercifully, those named who are or were of a repellent nature have long since gone to God. The stories present incidents from the life of one person, the first person narrator.